On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:09:58AM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:51:52AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > are you talking about Bret's reply about buzzwords? imo, that's what > > that reply was about, buzzwords. there was nothing personal. see, > > the way buzzwords work, is they get stuck in your (as in most people) > > head, then they come out when you have a idea but don't know quite > > how to express it. which is clearly the situation here. > > It's not like UBC was totally unrelated to the topic. And that situation > was already handled fine by Bob Beck in a more productive and > informative way. > > > I think readers of OpenBSD lists are far too sensitive. there, that's > > a personal 'attack' on all y'all. > > Yeah, everything is fine the way it is. Alienating random users with > real questions is the cost of making a good OS. They're just too > sensitive. > > Except that I have a pretty thick skin and have been around on the lists > enough to see how things work. So why did this thread bother me? Because > there's a difference between some idiot asking idiotic questions on > misc@ and getting blasted, and an inquiry into a pretty common, genuine > issue on t...@.
he asked about UBC. he did not originally present his real issue. but whatever. you can take it as a lesson to not hide your real questions/issues behind buzzwords, or you can get upset. it's your choice. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
