Re: [SLUG] Vendor Specifics

From: Smitty (76543a@mpinet.net)
Date: Sun May 27 2001 - 17:12:34 EDT


Allright, Todd.
Please tell us all the names of these alleged developers with, as you
say, "huge egos".
Be specific, Todd. If you can't tell us who they are, then you are
fabricating and trolling the list.
Smitty

Todd wrote:
>
> yup so i use ms for mail....whoop....i know tons of people that do....right
> now my linux box sits headless and i would rather use a graphical mail
> client.....you can assure youself this, once my kvm cable come this week or
> next i wont be using my ms box for anything more than games which is what i
> do 75% of my home use on my computer.....and yes there are huge egos
> everywhere....and no i am not active in the linux community, I am just joe
> user trying to get by. And NO I never attacked the community as a whole all
> i said was there were a few devolpers out there with huge egos....a handful
> of people hardly is a community as a whole...unless its a tiny community
> which the linux community is not.
>
> Todd
>
> > On Sun, 27 May 2001, Todd wrote:
> >
> > > First off this was NOT a personal attack on anyone or the community and
> > > shame on you for turning it into a personal attack on me.
> >
> > Don't play naive now -- of course, it was repeated trolls and
> > attack on the community -- an attack of FUD on your part --
> > repeated bald assertions of 'HUGE egos' and so forth. I asked
> > for cites and references, having offered specific contrary
> > examples in eact post on the topic, involving communities in
> > which I am active.
> >
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > > since i have settled on my distro of choice.
> >
> > From Todd's mail headers in his most recent post:
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 16:13:33 -0400
> > > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > > Content-Type: text/plain;
> > > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > > X-Priority: 3
> > > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
> > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200
> >
> > ----------------------
> >
> > Begone, troll.
> >
> >
> > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
> >
> > [herrold@new herrold]$ /usr/games/fortune -m dicksize
> > (linuxcookie)
> > %
> > "A word to the wise: a credentials dicksize war is usually a
> > bad idea on the net."
> > (David Parsons in c.o.l.development.system, about coding in C.)
> > %
> >
> >



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