On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:39:53 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > man, i can't believe that you told dman--one of the most unreservedly > helpful and still modest people on this list--to shut up. that's damn > near slapping your mama in the face. dude, apologize.
Well, firstly, I can also be a rather helpful member of the community too. While I haven't been there so much lately, I have literally spent countless hours in #debian helping hundreds of people with various issues(my nick there is ElectricElf). In this particular case, though, I wrote some fairly large chunks of the script in question. I don't know how many threads I've seen lately on the list which are fairly useless. I mean, dman doesn't need to use the script, that's fine. But many people do. So he doesn't find it useful :) That's great. No problems. I never liked lilo's automatic kernel management, so I didn't use it. But it didn't often *break* people's setups, so I didn't feel justified in asking that the maintainer of the package(who I was not) in removing it. And a lot of people probably did use the script after all. Yeah, okay, I was harsh. For that I'm sorry. But on the plus side, it did have the intended effect of stopping a thread in its tracks, and probably gave some people the idea that, just because they don't use something doesn't mean they're allowed to bitch about its mere existence. :) -- .--=====-=-=====-=========----------=====-----------=-=-----=. / David Barclay Harris Aut agere, aut mori. \ \ Clan Barclay Either action, or death. / `-------======-------------=-=-----=-===-=====-------=--=----'
