Re: Flames and flaming.

ketil@ii.uib.no
28 Sep 1998 09:53:32 +0200


Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org> writes:

> LM is a know it all.. Sometime's he's VERY annoying..

I think that if you read this thread, you'll find that you basically
have a failure to communicate. Larry is probably used to a
shooting-from-the-hip verbal communication, while

>> Mr. Johnson

probably are more comfortable with a polite, distanced view. (Who uses
last names on a mailing list anyway?) Of course, he takes offense to
"millisecond" remarks, and equally of course LM slings them around.

> Perhaps the price of being right so much is that you sound too sure. :)

The only thing more annoying than someone who thinks he's an expert, is
one who actually is.

>> This engineer has made prodigious contributions to the state-of-the

But does he know enough of Linux internals, and the hardware issues?
Save the credentials for the job interviews.

Sorry if I'm blunt, but that's how it is.

>> One of these linux-kernel misfits has modified his mail-server to
>> echo mail received from Mr. Johnson's machine into a loop-back.

I'd rather not like this to be true - in particular not of respected
kernel developers. Could you tell us which server it is, so that I can
verify the configuration and block it? I certainly don't need childish
postmasters sabotaging the net.

~kzm

-- 
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants

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