Tanner Lovelace wrote: > > Otherwise, this is not an appropriate trilug post (just like > asking about battery disposal is not).
Most of you understood the reasoning behind my OT request about windows, but some of you missed the point. I should have said: I know and care little about windows, but for various reasons I have to put a windows box on the internet and I don't want it hacked and becoming a DDoS zombie. It would be inconsiderate of me to come up on a windows mailing list and say "I'm using windows only under duress, but I want to take your time to educate me anyway". Not knowing what the windows people know and expecting that they don't know what I want, it is possible that their answers won't be useful to me. So my question here on the TriLUG list is "What do Linux people use for a firewall when they have to put a windows box on the internet?" I got the information I wanted from the replies. Thank you all. However Tanner dinged me for an inappropriate posting for this list, it not being relevent to Linux. A few hours later Tanner replied to a posting about Solaris and LDAP, which didn't have anything to do with Linux, with a useful answer. He didn't ding this person for an inappropriate posting. I have been dinged 3 times recently by Tanner for inappropriate postings, one of which threatened to cut off my posting privileges. In all 3 cases, I got suitable, informative and helpful replies from other people on the list, who didn't have any problem with my postings. Looking to figure out what's going on I went to the TriLUG mailinglist subscription page http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug where I read "The list is open to all people interested in Linux. ...we ask that you be courteous in your posts, and refrain from personal attacks and using profanity." Other than being for people interested in Linux, there are no restrictions on the material being posted. I notice that Tanner is quite happy to personally attack people (Matt Frie) on the mailing list, for which he has not apologised and which he defended in a later posting. It seems that TriLUG and the mailing lists are for Linux users, and not only about Linux. There are mailing lists only for Linux and this is not one of them. If TruLUG was only about Linux, then you wouldn't be able to post about gnu/OSS software (gcc, glibc...), hardware, or programming languages. To check I looked at past programs, presentations put on by TriLUG to see if they were Linux only. My test was whether the presentations would be out of place to users of other OS's, eg MAC, *nix, *BSD, Windows. Non Linux only events sponsored by TriLUG http://www.trilug.org/events.php Basic Shell Programming Non Linux meeting presentations http://www.trilug.org/meetings.php (I notice that an Apple Airport wap is made available at meetings) DNS Multiplatform GUI programming. Oracle Cluster File System Open Source as a Worldwide Revolution, LDAP RADIUS OpenNMS Perl/Tk SlickEdit OpenPGP Talk by Eben Moglen and another by Eric Raymond. Looking at recent TriLUG mailing list postings humor drinking beer (at meetings and other places) picnics Robotics LDAP on Solaris tracking usage of windows machines corrupt ports latex, docbook OpenVPN on windows SSL Certs Auto MDI/MDI X properties of modern switches Techsector comeback Hyperthreading on Xeons ntp Trusted Software Hardware forsale in search of hardware gmail cat5 cable offshoring and Safeco top -v- bottom posting detecting wireless access points All of these are of interest to Linux users at least judged by the replies and none of these have caught the ire of Tanner. I would like to continue to make postings to this list without having Tanner think that he's the adjudicator on suitability here. The participants in this list seem to have already done a reasonable job in letting people know what is suitable. Thank you Joe -- Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualization LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
