A Riddle

[Chris]

em1897 at aol.com wrote:
> Hmm, I wonder if the lack of performance, or the unwanted
> emails were more heaviliy weighted in the decision?
> 
> If there was any intelligent life on the list you could
> counter what you call "Trolls" with solid techical
> arguments. This reminds me of the old bsdi
> list. A bunch of half-wits who are just happy
> to belong to something and have other half-wits
> to correspond with.
> 
> FreeBSD used to have open discussions between
> users and developers and it used to be real
> good. Now it sucks and the developers are
> detached, off in their own little world. See
> a pattern?
> 
> But with a user base from places like gnu-rox.org
> and makeworld.com, what do you expect I
> guess?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xavier Maillard <zedek at gnu-rox.org>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Sent: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:35 +0100
> Subject: Re: A Riddle
> 
> On 25 Mar 2005, Chris wrote:
> 
>> If we're to prove a point to those that name call, are rude,
>> troll, and all the other recent events, we must do so on our
>> level. Allow them to spew what ever it is they spew, and we
>> must simply either ignore it (the correct way imho) Kill em
>> with kindness, OR, reply in such a fashion that the user has no
>> idea what we're saying.
>>
>> Let's stop the erosion of this list now before it goes too far.
>>
>> Over and out...
> 
> 
> I totally agree. This plus other things are the reasons why I
> chose to switch to another OS.

Users that Insult people that offer help (good or bad) says much about
that user.

The tactic at hand (at least with the user that top posts) is to do
nothing more then what it is hoping to do - incite anger *Sigh*

Oh well - most of us are certainly above that.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

Nothing is ever done for the right reasons.