> > >uklinux.net - >The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. > >On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, pctech at mybellybutton.com wrote: > >>> Frank Tanner III wrote: >>> >>>> There goes YOUR attitude again. I *SPECIFICALLY* stated in my initial >>>> e-mail "or those of you that either have an older revision of my >>>> firewall document, or are otherwise keeping track of it, there is a new >>>> version available.". >>> >>> if you want your own private mailing list, go start one. bye bye! If you >>> are going to post something here, making it meaningful to people who >>> read the list - is a good thing, and expected from all posters. >>> >> >> It *WAS* meaningful. For the people that it was applicable to. Then >> people decided that because it wasn't applicable to them that they >> should flame me. > >It was not relevant to the majority of the people on this list. I read it >and thought 'huh - weird , has it been misposted ??, have I missed part >of it ??, is it a strange new kind of spam ??, but I didnt find it >important enough to comment. > >It certainly wasnt applicable to me , but more to the point I didnt know >why it had been posted to this list and to what it referred. > >Were the people who it was relevant to then meant to ask you for a fresh >copy to be sent to them ??? > >This really is not the way that opensource documents are usually distributed - So, seeing as how I am not some rich corporation that can afford stupid amounts of bandwidth exactly HOW am I supposed to distribute it any other way? Nobody gave ANY information in this regard until I had been properly flamed first. This is not the first document that I have distributed in this manner. I've distributed a couple on the DNS and BIND list in this manner. I have distributed a couple on the old Red Hat lists in this manner. This is the FIRST time anyone has taken offense at my manner of transport for my document. > >opensource works by peole being able to take what they need, not request a >copy ... > >Or if there was some hidden place that the knowing could download it from >- again - neither the spirit nor method of open source. > >> It's attitudes such as this as to why people say, "You can never get good >support with Open Source software." > >They are more likely to say that if they cant get hold of it in the first >place ... > >> I came onto the list trying to be HJELPFUL, and got burnt to the ground >instead. JUST like in the forums. I guess they'er right. No good deed goes >unpunished. >> >> Now I understand why nobody has offered a document like this to the >> community before. It certainly makes me want to keep all of my future >> documents to myself. They're OBVIOUSLY only a bother to everyone and >> nobody wants them. >> > >You really do seem to have an atiitude problem, and have already taken up >far too much of the bandwidth on this - usually helpful and good mannered >- list. THAT is why I posted to the list. Because I *THOUGHT* that it was usually helpful and good mannered. Apparently there's some secret handshake involved in getting a HELPFUL and GOOD MANNERED response that I am unaware of. Because I got neither until after I'd been flamed. > >You are likely to put peoples backs up by such comments - people dnt know >how great your work is unless they can access it .... > >Why dont you start again - I suggest with something like :- > >' >For those that know about it, I have released a new version of my firewall >document - for those that dont - I have written a document which I would like >to commend to the >open source community as I feel that it is well writen and informative. > >I would like somewhere to host it if anyone has any suggestions, as I cant >provide unlimited bandwidth. > >If anyone would like a copy to check out then please mail me offlist' > >Or some such ... > >There are numerous places where such a document could be hosted with >provided bandwidth , sourceforge and google being two of them , CentOS >also being a possiblity ... > >But having not seen it we dont know if it is relevant or useful .... > >If you wish us to take a look at it then please either email a copy to me >or place it somwehere that it can be accessed. > >Regards > > >Lance Davis >CentOS Project Leader > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos