Re: your mail

Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-04T15:54:27Z

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > > From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
> > > > Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:02:41 -0500 (EST)
> > > > Well it's not a yahoo users problem because yahoo users can't fix
> > > > it. Some yahoo users have yahoo "free" mail as their only connection
> > > > to the internet because of facist network administrators.
> > > > If you want all the SPAM that will result on Linux-kernel, we
> > > > can disable the filter if you want.
> > > > I refuse to sit here and listen to all the "this is the only
> > > > connection person FOO has to the internet" stories, quite frankly I'm
> > > > absolutely sick of hearing them.
> > > > If you don't have properly functioning mail, you can't use these
> > > > lists.
> > > > Period.
> > > When did that become your call? I didn't realize you owned LKML.
> > Well it's his "baseball" and; "You'll play by my rules or you won't
> > play at all..."
> > FYI, there is no Major Domo. It's Latin, major domus, "master of
> > the house". He doith whatever he careth...
>
> Yes, I can see that. No matter who it alienates. Weither or not he's
> checked with anyone else either. How about leting those of us who (like
> Linus) choose to use a commercial email product do so? Garbage about
> headers, etc. is just that - garbage. The best list is one that is
> inclusive. One that tollerates other opinions and choices. LKML has
> turned into the largest, nastiest click I've ever seen, and that's really
> sad, as I'm sure it scares some good people away. Look at all the crap I
> and others got for using hotmail - I finally got sick and tired of the
> whining and now have to take 3x as long to read my mail - but it's not a
> hotmail address anymore, so the whining stoped. Why not spend less timing
> restricting what people can read and post from, and just let people
> participate?
>

Well SPAM is a very big problem and I can see that David is trying.
Sometimes he has a bad day and pisses a few off with his answers.
However, in every case in which somebody that I know of has complained,
the problems did get "mysteriously" fixed so, like they say; "Don't go
away mad. Just go away!".

Once you get flammed for a few years, you get used to it. That's why
some people send email to me rather than "the list". Sometimes I am
able to help without having to forward their problems to the list.
Sometimes I have to take a work-break and can't help, and other times
I can't help because I don't know what they are talking about. Anyway
if David wants invoke the rage of the Gods, yawn... It doesn't bother
me anymore....

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.