Re: Goodbye
- Original Message - From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 4:58 PM Subject: Goodbye Hi all, I'd just like to say it's been fun on this list for the past 7 or 8 years, but it's time I bow out. I've found that the S/N ratio is way out of proportion, and I have too much to do to even follow the various flame wars and MS-bashings that take place way to frequently now-a-days. I wholeheartedly agree. I joined this list a few weeks ago thinking I would receive information on the group, and be able to request/offer help on linux-related issues. I find that it is just a second-rate version of comp.os.linux.advocacy. I'm outta here. Rich Cloutier SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Goodbye
Rich C wrote: I wholeheartedly agree. I joined this list a few weeks ago thinking I would receive information on the group, and be able to request/offer help on linux-related issues. I find that it is just a second-rate version of comp.os.linux.advocacy. I'm outta here. Rich - Speaking for myself, and perhaps for others, I'm sorry to see our little community lose you. The list DOES exist for people to request/offer help on Linux-related issues. I believe it has done that, and that it continues to do that. Technical data from the group has saved my bacon more than once. I expect it to do so in the future. Of course, there seems always to be an unavoidable aspect to an unmoderated list: wide variation in the S/N ratio. Bright people who believe in things sometimes carry on a bit, whether on comp.os.foo, or in a regional or local list like this one. (If you find a pure list to subscribe to please send it - if not via this list, at least to me personally. :) Ya, I'm annoyed too from time to time. Worse, from time to time _I_ probably contribute to raising the noise floor. (Perhaps your few weeks of membership just happened to be at an unfortunate time?) But it is contributors to this list who actually meet with one another, get together for a beer, conduct new users' nights, run a Linux booth at computer shows, and help one another out at the keyboard. Whether such considerations make the list special enough to put up with the occasional flamewar is a personal decision. I've come to believe that to consider myself a grownup it's necessary for me to use sort-by-subject and mass DELETE from time to time. It's an annoyance, and admittely a price to pay. Too big a price? Those with sense and perception enough to be annoyed by flamewars are, ironically, those whom the community needs the most. (Even if they ARE sometimes the most enthusiastic flamers! :) Good luck. Please remember to let us know about any noisefree list you find. -Bill -- We have to make a management decision Jerry Mason, Morton Thiokol, Inc. 27 January 1986 ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Goodbye
Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd just like to say it's been fun on this list for the past 7 or 8 years, but it's time I bow out. This is a huge loss for the list. Sorry to see you go, Paul. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark (cetaceannetworks.com!kclark) | Will hack Perl for Cetacean Networks, Inc. | fine food, good beer, Portsmouth, N.H. (USA)| or fun. alumni.unh.edu!kdc (PGP Key Available)| ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Goodbye
Paul, This is a sad day for the group and the list. Your valuable contributions really are needed here. Both from your sense of software and hardware issues as well as group issues. I know everyone on the list would wish you to reconsider. Use more filters Paul :). I am speaking for myself here Paul, selfishly and shamelessly. We need people like you to populate the list so that between the sometimes rants and flames we have the continued knowledge base that you offer to make this the list you say you want. I really feel you have much more to contribute over the next 7 or 8 yrs. Please reconsider Paul. For me the group and yourself. Jerry Hi all, I'd just like to say it's been fun on this list for the past 7 or 8 years, but it's time I bow out. I've found that the S/N ratio is way out of proportion, and I have too much to do to even follow the various flame wars and MS-bashings that take place way to frequently now-a-days. I will still continue to organize the Nashua chapter meetings for the time being (unless someone *really, really* want to take that off my hands :) and therefore will remain subscribed to the -announce list. If you meeting topic suggestions/requests/ideas, please post them there so I'll see them, or send them directly to me, I'm sure y'all have my e-mail address :) Anyway, it's been fun, and I truly hope you all have fun beating MS and each other up daily :) -- Seeya, Paul If we spent half as much time coding as we do bashing others for not supporting Free/Open Source Software, just imagine how much cooler we would be! If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** -- - Jerry Kubeck Customer Support Appropriate Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AppropriateSolutions.com ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
