On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:36:53PM -0800, Mark wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote: > >> Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we? > > > > Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS. So... how it this > > not about CentOS? > > > > If that's true, why does he (always) cross-post every single question > to the Ubuntu users group (and I hear others, but I don't belong to > them)? I was not aware of this; thank you for bringing it to my attention. > This is a fellow who routinely asks extremely general questions that > so strongly resemble first-year student homework questions that I, and > others, have taken the path of not helping him. I'm not here to do > anyone's homework for them. I concur with this 100000% I've consistently called people out for mis-use of this mailing list; somehow this one slipped through my notice and I owe the list an apology for that. > Also, it has been my experience in the last four years of being on > this list that most people who are genuinely interested in how > something works *on CentOS* include such minimally relevant > information as which CentOS they are running and why the question > belongs here rather than in, say, a Firefox discussion group. > > Feel free to poke around in the archives and see if you can find even > one CentOS query from S. Mathias. I have after you pointed out he's a leech (my wording, not yours) above and I was reminded of his past antics here. Again my apologies to you and the list for mentally blocking him out and not putting 2 and 2 together. John -- The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. -- Teddy Roosevelt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110119/f30f3eff/attachment-0004.sig>