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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: God Damn partition crap! Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 04:24:00 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31593360.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <4hqav8$kmo@nntp.interaccess.com> <3140F2B6.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <4i1qp4$bmj@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4i50q6$64i@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4i727m$1hl@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4j0mhb$r6i@calypso.bns.com.au> <31559EE7.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> <4j8mrb$p4s@calypso.bns.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Michael Talbot-Wilson <mike@calypso.bns.com.au> Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > The emotion, whether mine or that of the original poster, signifies > that some real distress has been experienced. He (I think) and I > are trying to point out that, at a certain point, there is something > seriously wrong with FreeBSD. You brush this aside, dismiss it as > emotional, as though emotion is by definition unimportant. Emotion is not unimportant, by my definition or anyone else's, but it's also not conducive to rational discussion if such discussion is what you're after. Light, not heat, is what's required and encouraged here and anything else truly is irrelevant. > 2. You have possibly overlooked the fact that everyone else is busy, > too. It is not a matter of being busy or idle, but of priorities. > See 1. You seem to have a good grasp of the fundamentals of "too busy to address problem X", but I still fail to see why you are unable to apply it to anyone but yourself. No matter, I've said my piece as well. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project