[svlug] Knock, knock....

[kmself@ix.netcom.com]

on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:33:57PM -0800, Rick Moen (rick at linuxmafia.com) wrote:
> begin  kmself at ix.netcom.com quotation:
> 
> > Send you?  Send you?  Hell, you're already there.
> > 
> > You'll get some tips and tricks, but you're not going to avoid every
> > mistake.  Other times, there's enough conflicting advice that you have
> > to try out divergent paths to work out which one's right.  The road's
> > rutted, no changing that.  SVLUG's just a reasonably good suspension
> > system.
> 
> But let's get directly to the bone of contention, here:  Good technical
> information and advice gets posted here, e.g., about system security,
> and then the boneheads emerge to argue against it, wanting to be
> _convinced_ that they should act in their best interest.  
> 
> No, I don't think so.  If people persist in arguing strenously (e.g.)
> that using (unaltered) telnet, non-anonymous ftp, and regular-type POP3
> across the open Internet is perfectly OK, then they are best left to
> Papa Darwin for industrial-grade education.
> 
> We hand out free clues here.  But if you require force-feeding, you've
> come to the wrong place.

Or, repeating myself:  you'll be shown the light; you have to see it
yourself.

I'll indicate the path to righteousness.  I won't carry you down it.
I'm a guide, not an ass (or horse, or horse's ass, appearances
notwithstanding).

-- 
Karsten M. Self <kmself at ix.netcom.com>    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?       There is no K5 cabal
  http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/         http://www.kuro5hin.org
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