[volunteers] Fwd: heh

[Paul Reiber]

On Jan 25, 2008 5:12 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Warren Turkal (wturkal at gmail.com):
>
> > Then, why do you play the same game? I have had you email me offlist
> > just so that you didn't give the information to the person asking the
> > original question.
>
> Yes, I indeed once sent you offlist the answer to a question that Reiber
> had asked on svlug at lists.svlug.org -- for the obvious and known
> reason that I was deliberately not helping Paul Reiber, during that period.

Yet another instance of the sort of behaviour, bordering on childish,
which we do NOT want to make exemplary within SVLUG.

> I sent you that mail because I figured you might actually be interested
> in http://linuxmafia.com/ssh/ , and perhaps even amused at the fact that
> a comprehensive answer to Reiber's question was _right there_ at
> http://linuxmafia.com/ssh/blackberry.html -- at one of the very most
> prominent links on the whole Internet for "ssh clients".

Yet more supporting evidence that SVLUG needs its own wiki, full of
similar content to linuxmafia.com but including the opinions of dozens
upon dozens of other competent authors, independent of whether Rick
concurs with the content.

Had an SVLUG resource existed that might have addressed my question,
I'd have certainly looked there first.  Failing that, since my Google
searching didn't return anything indicating that linuxmafia had an
answer I might appreciate,
I never even considered searching around there for an answer.

> > That seems a little antisocial at the very least.
> I note the ongoing irony of your (again) indulging namecalling.

Rick, Warren's not called you a name; rather, he's quite accurately
identified one of your more irritating traits.  There's a substantial
difference; he knows that, you know that, I know that, and now
EVERYONE knows that we ALL know that.  You'd be better off to shorten
your replies, refrain from indulging in penning responses such as the
above, and focus on the technology to the exclusion of all else;
that's where you excel.

> Anyhow, was there some particular part of
>
>     The person "looking for the SSH client" was Paul Reiber.
>     I am not seeking at this time to help him solve his problems.
>     Therefore, I made no on-list comment.
>
> ...that was unclear when I answered your question "Was sending this to
> me a mistake?" the first time?

I may be wrong (it's been known to happen from time to time) but my
intuition here
is that Warren had just let you know that you'd made a relatively
significant blunder.

Your inability to decipher that is yet more proof that you need to
just throttle back, focus
on tech, and stay out of politics.

Best,
-pbr