I feel a repost of Ben Nagy's e-mail on this topic from last summer is
particularly appropriate at this time (see below). I've been thinking the
same thing lately, and maybe it is time we ask the moderator to be a little
more selective in letting things through to the list. And people, please
learn to use a search engine before saying "Can anyone tell me where to find
info on topic X?"
Apologies if my earlier messages came through in HTML format. Got a new
system, and didn't use my brain to recall that I needed to turn off that
damn "feature." I've got it fixed now.
Randy Graham
Ben's post from July 5, 2000:
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Look, I hate to be a grumpy old man _way_ before my time but I think we're
seeing a heap more total misses in terms of content relevance.
Far be it from me to make authoritatrian statements to an unmoderated list,
but:
Putting "This is off topic but..." at the top of a message doesn't make it
on topic.
We're here to talk about firewalls. Fine, often that stretches to security
as a tangent. Fair enough.
However, if I wanted to talk about general NT questions I'd join an NT list.
If I wanted to know about Sendmail configs I'd read the batbook or join a
Sendmail list. It's NOT HARD to go and find an appropriate forum for your
question.
I (personally) don't think this list is a helpdesk. A firewalls helpdesk,
maybe...;)
Yes, it's early in the morning here - I'm in my curmudgeonly phase.
--
Ben Nagy
Network Consultant, Volante IT
PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:40 AM
To: Nontakorn
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: No brainer posts (Was - What does it mean?)
< /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
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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