From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263792AbTDDPy1 (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:54:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263791AbTDDPxM (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:53:12 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:54400 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263789AbTDDPu4 (for ); Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:50:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:04:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: William Scott Lockwood III cc: "David S. Miller" , Linux kernel Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20030404072327.J5167-100000@www.geekizoid.com> Message-ID: References: <20030404072327.J5167-100000@www.geekizoid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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" > > > > 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.