Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

[Fred Morcos]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown at ru.ac.za> wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2012 12:59:51 Stephen Cook wrote:
>> On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote:
>
> [snip childish invective]
>
>> I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this
>> flame-y? I realize that this particular post might be trolling / satire
>
> No, they aren't. And I notice that whoever is primarily responsible for it
> isn't even prepared to sign his own name to his tirades - he (or she) is
> using anonymous remailers. (Irritatingly this makes him difficult to
> killfile - it turns out there's at least one recent legitimate post that's
> been sent through a similar remailer so I can't just toss them all away).
>
> Jonathan
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