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From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
Followup-To: poster
Date: 16 May 1996 20:48:14 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
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Message-ID: <4ng4ae$cdq@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4n8jin$htl@agate.berkeley.edu> <4nalgf$747@nntpb.cb.att.com> <319b6e30.396869685@news>
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In article <319b6e30.396869685@news>, Chris <coredump@nervosa.com> wrote:
>It's obvious Nick here has nothing better to do than go around and advocate
>Linux while slandering other OS'.
Of the articles you posted:
55 were _responses_ to help requests on a newsgroup (usually linux)
20 were Linux vs Windows threads
--> 16 were not written by me. (who knows why they were included)
14 were Linux vs FreeBSD
7 were just clarifications of issues (non-advocacy)
5 were threads I started myself and responded to.
3 were unrelated to computers. (space shuttle, free stuff, etc)
1 was Linux vs OS/2
The threads that involved advocacy issues just generate a lot of
followups, but I DO spend most of my time responding to people who
are having help, not, as you claim, trying to post advocacy issues.
But because the advocacy issues generate many more followups, they
are represented in greater numbers.
The advocacy issues pop up a lot because they are much different than
responding to people's requests for help. Advocacy issues are usually
long drawn out conversations that involve lots of points and counterpoints,
where responses to help are more of a one time thing.
>Nick: find something better to do with your
>time, we don't need your waste of bandwidth.
If you don't like the advocacy issues, there are kill files. Use them.
If you are going to attack me personally, then you are off topic, so
respond to me via e-mail instead. It's easy to attack a person, but
more difficult to attack the argument.
As for bandwidth -- Let's assume the average length of an article is 8K
(WAY over estimate). Then all my advocacy posts combined took up 264K.
264K doesn't take up that much bandwidth. What are probably meant to say
was signal to noise ratio. And if you are worried about that, then I
highly suggest that you use a kill file.
>Just on a whim, I went to
>Altavista and searched everywhere this character has posted to,
Big brother is watching. :)
(followups redirected to poster).
Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu