< /rant: on, moderated >
Maybe Mouss (like a lot of people that contribute meaningful content to the list) are a little tried of seeing questions on the list that the asker could
easy answer themselves with a minor amount of effort. I too appreciate Mouss' contributions and I hope people appreciate mine but personally I regard "no brainer" posts like this one as spam.
Half the adventure of working with computers is discovering how they work and how to make them work. Seems like an increasing number of posts on the list are from people that don't want to put forth that effort. For crying out loud, Google returns over 35 different "Internet Glossary" pages. How hard could this be?
Well I'm at it, I might as well mention posts with no subject. These are particularly annoying because you have to look at the message to see if it's something you can contribute to. I consider these spam too and drop them unceremoniously into the bit bucket.
< /rant: off>
-- Bill Stackpole
| "Nontakorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/08/01 07:31 AM
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "mouss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: What does it mean? |
Gosh Mouss.....
I've been following all your replies and threads in here...this is a really
nice gesture...how helpful. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "mouss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: What does it mean?
> These are the names of greek gods, and you should read the mythology
books:)
>
>
>
> At 11:05 07/05/01 +0200, Brintazzoli Fabrizio wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I would like to know the meaning of a lot of words:
>
> Just ask the man who gave names to all the animals
>
>
> >IPFW
>
> Internet Powerful Freaking Willow
>
> >BSD
>
> Breasts in South Dakota
>
> >NIX
>
> Not Inside eXtasy
>
> >FREEBSD
>
> FREE Boy Sucking Daemon (Note: I love FreeBSD)
>
> >OPENBSD
>
> Ordinary Proper Encryption Network Bravely & Smartly Delivered
> (Note: I continue to ignore OpenBSD:)
>
> >IOS
>
> I Own a Secret
>
>
> >Does anybody help me?
>
> Don't know this one.
>
> more seriously, BSD=Berkely Softwrare Design, IPFw=ip firewall,
> IOS=internet Operating system, NIX=never heard of this one.
> Unix is an operating system, the name of which is a pun for Multics,
> another OS.
>
> but anyway, all this can be found if you search seriously, just try
> www.google.com.
>
>
> cheers,
> mouss
>
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