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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: followup from censored port-i386@Netbsd.ORG Date: 26 Jun 1996 13:38:46 +0200 Organization: FWINS, University of Amsterdam Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4qr7g6$7d3@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <DERAADT.96Jun23070919@zeus.theos.com> <DERAADT.96Jun24221739@zeus.theos.com> <4qprhg$2i9@fox.ksu.ksu.edu> <DERAADT.96Jun25204523@zeus.theos.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl [FreeBSD and BSDI groups trimmed out of the list] Hey.. a flamewar. Hadn't seen that in a long time. Unfortunately, I seem to have the need to comment, thus extending the life of this thread. But here we go. One thing that strikes me as very sad, is that part of this flamewar openly involves the 'coremail' archive. I made the mistake of reading it once, and noticed that there seemed to be a lot of messages in there that were private, and obviously made public without the approval of the sender. How can people fall so low that they 1) make such a thing available, and 2) noone seems to notice (or care) that this contains private messages and it's a disgrace that it's there in the first place? I don't care what happened, or who is wrong or right. No matter what happened, I think that making private email public is a very sad thing to do. Please don't come up with "I was forced into it, because they did X to me". Hiding behind other people's actions to justify your own isn't right. If people go on flaming eachother long enough about who is wrong and who is right, everybody will be wrong in the end. A lot of energy will have been wasted, and a lot of people driven away from what should be a good, free OS. What happened is history. It's sad that it happened, but there we are. There's really no need to go through all this again. What good will it do? Let's just get back to working on BSD-based systems, each in the way we prefer, and with the people we prefer working with. I do believe that was the original intention, wasn't it? Please let this thread die. Jordan was quite right for asking this thread to be removed from comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. I hope it disappears from this group as well. I'm certainly not going to respond to any followups. If you have the irresistible urge to flame me to hell, you can do so by email, it'll be entertaining. Have a nice day. - Frank