[CentOS] CentOS Based Fierwall Document

Fri Aug 4 14:52:44 UTC 2006
pctech at mybellybutton.com <pctech at mybellybutton.com>

>pctech at mybellybutton.com wrote:
>> 
>> Etiquette?  What etiquette?  The FIRST comment out of anyone's "mouth"
>> was "piss off".  Where's the etequitte in that?
>
>That's really astonishing. I must have missed that mail, though I don't
>really filter mails. Who said that and where?
>

Piss off was in quotes because it was a paraphrase of the way the first response anyone made from the list came across.

>> Well then prove me wrong?  Because that's all I've gotten at every
>> turn was nothing but flames.  I tried to be helpful and offer
>> something to the community that I, obviously mistakenly, though muight
>> be useful and got a hearty "f*ck you" for my efforts.  Where's the
>> "community spirit" in that?
>
>Oh right. Nobody offered you to host that document on wiki.centos.org. I
>must have dreamt that then.

That e-mail came FAR after people had already started flaming me.

>
>The first offensive mail came from you: 
>
>| On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:18 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>| > On 8/3/06, pctech at mybellybutton.com <pctech at mybellybutton.com>
>| > wrote:
>| >> For 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.  The current version of the document is version
>| >> 3.1.  It's changed rather significantly in some areas.
>| > 
>| > For those of us who have neither?
>| 
>| Then there's no reason for you to fricken reply, is there?
>
>The second mail was an offer to you to host the document on
>wiki.centos.org by Jim Perrin. Which you responded to somewhat
>strangely.
>
>The third Mail was Karanbir Singh asking you:
>
>| and who are you ?
>| and what / where is your firewall doc ?
>
>Which is *short* and maybe misunderstandable, but not offensive at all.
>It was a question towards you because that was your first mail on the
>list (AFAICS) and noone on this list knew this document. 
>
>Your answer to that was:
>
>| So far, two of the three replies, yours being one of them, have left me
>| with the impression that everyone in the CentOS community is the same as
>| the jerks in the forum were. 
>
>So: Second offensive mail also came from you.
>
>You really *do* seem to have a perception problem. 
>
>Ralph
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