Why am I, Still subscribed and reading this list ?

[Joe Gain]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
<m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
>
>> Jason Hellenthal wrote:
>> > Because... at some point it may return to normal without all the
>> > bikeshedding and, I run because, I don't run because.
>>
>> Agreed !  Many replies were sent to Wrong lists.
>>
>> Original poster & respondents abused stable@ & questions@
>>        Cross posting 2 lists un-necessarily, despite:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL
>>                        "C.1.3 List Charters
>>                        Rules of the road:
>>                        No posting should be made to more than 2
>>                        mailing lists, and only to 2 when a clear
>>                        and obvious need ..."
>>
>>                There was a desire, as always, but no need.  (so I
>>                removed cc: stable@ on this post, to avoid this
>>                post also breaking that rule, (on the basis that
>>                stable@ readership are more likely to already know
>>                about Not cross posting, & using the Right list,
>>                as questions@ started as a target list to point
>>                clueless new users to, from /etc/motd.  (It was
>>                expected as users grew experienced, they'd subscribe
>>                other lists themed to their interests.)))
>>
>>        Noise was emitted to lists with wrong remits.
>>                advocacy at freebsd.org exists for promo. talk inc. re. wiki.
>>
>> Please read list remits, & conform to them, & subscribe appropriate lists.
>>        http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo
>>        http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy
>>                "Furthering the Use of FreeBSD
>>                Share ideas and plan to increase the number of
>>                companies and individuals using FreeBSD"
>>
>>        http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
>>                "This is the mailing list for users of freebsd-stable.
>>                the stable cvsup target is built from the latest
>>                official RELEASE with the addition of critical bug fixes."
>>
>>        http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
>>                "This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD.
>>                You should not send "how to" questions to the
>>                technical lists unless you consider the question
>>                to be pretty technical."
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Julian
>> --
>> Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich
>> http://berklix.com
>>  Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ".
>>  Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64,
>> quoted-printable.
>>        Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix.  http://berklix.org/yahoo/
>
>
>
> The question "Why are you using FreeBSD ?" was a very good one , but , in
> my opinion , other side "Why are you not using FreeBSD?" would be
> appropriate , because in engineering , everything for any subject is

I don't think these kinds of _very_ general questions are really
helpful and there
are a lot of them. I guess, because there are no sales representatives giving
people advice about FreeBSD, people feel more confident when they get some
advice from a mailing list about what sought of hardware people have used to
successfully do some task or other. Especially, when this involves buying
something expensive.

But in general, why are you using/ not using operating system 'x' is not a good
question because there are so many variables and you can't compare the
results in any really conclusive way.

The best thing is to just try it, and anyway, *with FreeBSD the software itself
will not cost you any money*. Maybe you will be surprised, maybe you won't be.
I mean there is no single specific task that general purpose OSs like FreeBSD
are designed for.

>
> - Advantages
> - Disadvantages
>
> When "Disadvantages" is NOT evaluated sufficiently well , the results
> mostly will be unpredictable .

I think, it's fair to say that the results will be somewhat unpredictable, maybe
in a positive way, maybe not.

>
> Instead of corrupting the original thread , I wanted to help to cover the
> other side in parallel to the
> original question .
>
> If you think , my response is unconscious , here is the my subscription
> list to FreeBSD mailing lists :
>
>
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>
>
> Thank you very much .
>
>
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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