On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:33:02PM -0500, David R. Meyer wrote:
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> Please keep it up, all five of you, because every time you get on here
> and flame me, more people are driven away from SLUG and somehow they
> find the new LUG, where you'll not find this kind of crap.
I've cautioned you privately about this; now I will do so publicly. If
you want to start another LUG in our midst, that's fine. I told you I'd
let you promote it in a limited way on our list, which I have done.
However, I won't have you saying, effectively, "It's _bad_ in SLUG; come
over to FLALUG, where it's _not_ bad." Not on this list.
When you started the "Windows password cracker" thread, the result was
entirely predictable. I just shut up when someone does this, because I
know the list will slam whoever asks the question. This isn't the first
time someone's asked a (seeming) Windows question on the list, and the
result is almost always the same. It doesn't matter that you wanted a
Linux program to do this; you didn't make that clear in the original
post. And right at this point, many list members have raw nerves (myself
included) because of the friction you and Smitty have caused in the last
week. So the reaction is probably exaggerated.
It doesn't really matter whether you _intend_ to cause trouble here; the
fact is that you do, and the effect is the same whether you intend to or
not. You're welcome to do as you like in your group and on your list.
But as you have been keen to point out, _this_ list has rules. Running
down SLUG and creating static violates the _spirit_ of them, at the very
least.
Paul M. Foster
President
Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG)
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