Re: RANT: write-only mailing-lists ?

[John Horn <jhorn1@desperate.ci.tucson.az.us>]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, jolan wrote:

> I just installed OpenBSD for the first time today. I can't wait for 2.9 to
> come out so I can try to upgrade it from source and post all my problems.
> That's the main reason I switched to OpenBSD; I heard everyone on the
> mailing lists has charming, sparkly personalities.

Charming, sparkly, and not in the least pedantic... :)

> 
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Marc Espie wrote:
> 
> > Why does seemingly every single individuhal that goes through there 
> > think that THEIR problem are completely unique, and that they needn't
> > even BOTHER check the mailing-list archives for indications of the SAME
> > problem ?
> > 
> > Why does seemingly every single individuhal think they have the technical
> > skills to manage the update from 2.7 to 2.8 by hand, using source, instead
> > of simply downloading the binary release and be done with it ?
> 
> 



Regards:
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John Horn                       |"Those who do not understand Unix
City of Tucson, IT Dept.        |are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
jhorn1@desperate.ci.tucson.az.us|                         Henry Spencer
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