Re: Freezing.. (was Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance)

Larry McVoy
2002-12-19T00:30:00Z

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:18:44PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > I can understand it when we're discussing BK; other than that, it's pretty
> > > > friggin lame. If that's what was behind your posts, Alan, there is an
> > > > easy procmail fix for that.
> > >
> > > It wasnt me who brought up bitkeeper
> >
> > PLONK. Into kernel-spam you go. I've had it with ax grinders.
>
> Oh dear me. Larry McVoy has flipped
>
> I'm now being added to his spam list for *not* mentioning bitkeeper
>
> Poor Larry, I hope has a nice christmas break, he clearly needs it

Look, Alan and anyone else, I'm sort of sick of the flames about BK.
It's apparent that there will always be people who are looking for
excuses to attack BK because it isn't GPLed and how dare the kernel
hackers use it. Your mail was so senseless that that was the only sane
explanation I could find and apparently I wasn't being paranoid, that's
what John thought as well.

I have a bad habit of taking things personally and too seriously and
the result is that attacks on me/BK/whatever, imagined or real, stress
me out and waste my time. Life's too short to for me to deal with that
nonsense anymore. I discovered procmail and I dump people into a spam
file if I feel they have a track record of yanking my chain. It's my
fault that I'm such a wuss that I can't handle it but this works.
It's not personal, it's about having a more pleasant life and I find
things to be more pleasant without the flames.

I'll still read your mail, I do so about every 2 weeks, but that way
whatever yankage you were (or were not) trying to do is in the past and
I'll ignore it.
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