yeah, but its still not the redhat site, have you been on that??? There must be thousands of people on this list, and probably 20 of them have proven to be "nasty" posters... that still leaves alot (the majority in fact!!!) that are here because of linux instead of politics or personal amateur psychology and trolling..... I would like to consider myself in that majority.. and I think a good many of you do as well, (hense it being a maajority :-) rgds Frank PS, we are too close to providing a comparably usable Desktop OS and already have a better server, so lets not blow it be coming across as zealots, it doesn't look good.. look what it did for apple? they had a bunch of old fanatics attacking everything that wasn't apple, and when that didnt' grow to anything, they had to swap to selling colorful dayglo cases(imac) and notebooks to newbies.. (having said that, that later idea actually worked to some degree... :-) peace people, rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of s Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 2001 3:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list On Monday 24 September 2001 03:19 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > I recently made the serious error of replying to a question (on this > list), to a person seaking advice on a modem. I "did" make the mistake > of recently switching my mail software, and I missed turning off HTML. > I've corrected that. > > However, I don't think I did anything to warrent being called names. > Perhaps the folks on a "newbie" list could learn to say "thank you > " to those who respond to their questions, and not start with the name > calling. Or perhaps the next time, they'll get far fewer responses. > I seldom let things like this burn me. But this person went out of their > way just to insult someone who tried to help. > > Maybe the rest of you will remember the name when more questions are asked. > > Have a good day > > Ric It's been getting hostile on all the forums and ngs since 8.0 came out, and that number has been multiplied by the influx of windows refugees since the publicity surrounding the windows product activation. It's gotten to where trying to help ain't even fun anymore. I agree, it's a sad state of affairs. -s
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