List Protocol (was: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:31:39PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 16:49:39 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >
> > Until then STFU you ungrateful bastards.  All you once were dumb
> > newbies who didn't know FreeBSD from free beer, and I'll bet more
> > than a few of you sent e-mail to questions, thinking it was an
> > actual person who gave a damn.  Boy were you surprised!
> 
> Ted, there are other aspects of the list protocol.  One has to do with
> message format.  You seem to have great difficulty with this one,
> requiring other people to manually reformat, and often to guess what
> you're talking about.
> 
> Another has to do with politeness.  You seem to abuse this one again
> and again; it's one of the reasons why I seldom read this mailing list
> any more.  You've probably driven off a number of people who would be
> able to give *helpful* answers.  Please stop.

Yeah, I've been procmailing him to /dev/null for a couple of years
now.

Kris
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