Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread spellberg_robert
wowie_zowie, suzy cream_cheese; what's got into you ? golly, gee whillikers, kids, a fella can start a flame_war without even trying; i feel so ... validated. mr. kinsey - you are welcome. mr. smorgrav - you are right about one thing; there --is-- a civility aspect to this. my question

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread Brett Glass
At 04:15 AM 6/3/2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Only by US standards. What do you think hurts a child more: to see a woman's breast or hear the word "fuck", or to see cowboys and indians (or their modern equivalent) disembowel each other? Some folks on the FreeBSD lists seem to find it far

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
Words don't kill children. People with small minded attitudes about oppression like this kill children. On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, spellberg_robert wrote: [ with an admonition from Ion-Mihai Tetcu, ] Wojciech Puchar wrote [ with some minor formatting from your author ]: [ snip ] OK so [ exple

RE: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread Rick N
all good. -so keep it up guys, gals, children, I owe him atleast that much thanks. Rick. > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:54:14 -0400 > From: kevin.wil...@gmail.com > To: freebsd-chat-lo...@be-well.ilk.org > CC: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Wilcox
2009/6/3 Lowell Gilbert : > Charlie Kester writes: >> On Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 03:15:22 PDT Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: >>>Only by US standards.  What do you think hurts a child more: to see a >>>woman's breast or hear the word "fuck", or to see cowboys and indians >>>(or their modern equivalent) d

RE: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread Rick N
geeez, thanks for fishing me into this one bud. > From: sola...@hotmail.com > To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:01:05 + > Subject: RE: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for? > > > > > > To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > > From

RE: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread Rick N
> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > From: freebsd-chat-lo...@be-well.ilk.org > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:23:17 -0400 > Subject: Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for? > > Charlie Kester writes: > > > On Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 03:15:22 PDT Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Charlie Kester writes: > On Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 03:15:22 PDT Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: >> >>Only by US standards. What do you think hurts a child more: to see a >>woman's breast or hear the word "fuck", or to see cowboys and indians >>(or their modern equivalent) disembowel each other? > > How m

RE: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread Rick N
eebsd-mature-puberty-middleaged-children-oldfart-7badwords ?, then that would be too bad. 'cause many others prefer the "freedom of expression" at all costs, too much for that. :) > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:35:37 -0700 > From: corky1...@comcast.net > To: freebsd-chat

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 03 Jun 2009 at 03:15:22 PDT Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Only by US standards. What do you think hurts a child more: to see a woman's breast or hear the word "fuck", or to see cowboys and indians (or their modern equivalent) disembowel each other? How many children read the FreeBSD maili

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
spellberg_robert writes: > notwithstanding your use of a "smiley_face", > as far as i am concerned, > on any mailing_list or other communications forum accessible by children, > such language is "verboten". This has nothing to do with children. It is simply a matter of politeness. > one o

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
spellberg_robert wrote: finally, lest some readers complain that your author is being parochial, i submit one example, from radio, where "mean joe breen" had no authority. jack benny, the greatest comedian in the history of entertainment, not --ever-- uttered a "blue" word, except

[ fbsd_chat ] Re: What is this forum for?

2009-06-02 Thread spellberg_robert
[ with an admonition from Ion-Mihai Tetcu, ] Wojciech Puchar wrote [ with some minor formatting from your author ]: [ snip ] OK so [ expletive deleted; thank you, mr. president ] off Boris, >>> but we were talking some time ago about dumping potential sponsors ;) Watch you language ple

RE: What is this forum for?

2009-06-02 Thread Rick N
hat@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: What is this forum for? > > >> > >> Where are this rules defined? > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questi

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Where are this rules defined? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/ first - good that's proper definition of hacker explained. --- FreeBSD-questions is a mailing list maintain

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-31 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sat, 30 May 2009 22:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: [ .. ] > > dealing with humans) is a very unfair tactic in trying to justify > > any view. > > What you want to look for is a solution that causes the least > > problems, and respecting the list rules does that. > > Where are thi

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech, you want to respect POLA: the principle of least astonishment. It's could you explain this more. really first time i read this phrase :) not often applied to things like mailing lists, but folks exepct to see tech support on FreeBSD-Questions, me too, support about FREEBSD, not sp

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-30 Thread Chuck Robey
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Hey folks, all of you, could I please sugggest that this entire thread >> (under a >> variety of subject names) is an abuse of the lists? > > Generally i do agree with you. But - in my opinion there are lots of > other abuses. Whenever i pointed this out i got tons of pro