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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!idea.exnet.iastate.edu!flipk From: flipk@idea.exnet.iastate.edu (Phillip F Knaack) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: 17 Feb 1997 05:22:13 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA Lines: 43 Message-ID: <5e8pu5$o0$1@news.iastate.edu> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <5e6db9$8cg@news.pacifier.com> <5e6k49$621@news.bayarea.net> <1997Feb16.105221@screwem.citi.umich.edu> <5e879l$2dn@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: idea.exnet.iastate.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1.1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5483 tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes: >I mean, I could say that "peter honeyman blew up a bomb in Centennial Park >during the Olympics." Then Jason could say that "people who believe Thor's >Centennial Park claims would hold that the facts are indeed public, and that >your refutation simply does not exist." It's a "When did you stop beating >your wife" argument. It's slimy. I have run NetBSD for a long time, and have witnessed a great number of conversations, both useful and idiotic, cross these mailing lists and newsgroups. I've been amazed at the fervor with which some people attack other people, and for no solidly identifiable reasons. However, this thread has produced more dirt and slime from various persons such as yourself and Jason than I have ever seen. I repeatedly see comments which seem totally unfounded in anything except pure unadalterated hatred, and as such I am ashamed that I was ever led to believe that everyone in the NetBSD project were respectable honest people. I have switched to OpenBSD on most of my machines now, at first because of the 32M / adaptec 1542 thing. But now, even despite your "warnings" about reading Theo's coremail archive, I have read it, and have yet again witnessed what I had hoped not to see. After reading this I am proud to use OpenBSD and even contribute, when skills and time permit. OpenBSD consists of many good people, hard working, intelligent people, and the rate at which work proceeds on the project astounds me. And yes, even respectable people, like Theo. Your comments are vague, hurtful, and ignorant. You are nothing more than an angry man. There. If you can dish out the insults, you can take them. Responses, except good ones, will be directed to /dev/null. Cheers, Phil -- Interoperation with matter-transporters using polar coordinate systems is discouraged, due to round-off and other algorithmic errors in certain ubiquitous floating-point implementations, leading to results which are best discreetly described as "disappointing." --RFC 1437