Re: [Sheflug] Selling the Internet and Yourself Short - Lesson 1 ( was Re: suse7.0 )

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

What a lot of fuss over one word which the world chooses to define one way
and Richard another - this, after all is the way language 'develops'. I can
still remember the time when 'gay' only conjured up images of normal,
well-balanced children playing happily on a sun-kissed beach......

Still, at least this interlude seems to have efficiently diverted attention
from the potentially controversial bits of my original email - I'm almost
feeling brave enough to come out of my fireproof box now! ;o}

Ian
--
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "José Luis Gómez Dans" <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk>
To: "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: 27 September 2000 11:40
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Selling the Internet and Yourself Short - Lesson 1
( was Re: suse7.0 )


On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:09:37AM +0100, Richard wrote:
> Jose
>
> "José Luis Gómez Dans" wrote:
>
> >     Erm... Since we are talking about linux, it might be wise to go to
> > the sources?
> >     <http://www.lysator.liu.se/hackdict/split2/computer_geek.html>
>
>
> erm...  this has been written by an arse wipe :)  Probably American as
> well :)
>
> I mean, if you are something to do with a University then you can come
> up with better misinformation than this ?

Well, you happen to be proselitysing about most of his software
in this list. The author is ESR, who among other things wrote fetchmail.
Moreover, his "jargon file" is considered the standard of hacker
vocabulary. Now, if you don't like it, fair call, but slagging it off
like that is IMO out of order.

And, please note that my collaboration in Sheflug has _nothing_
to do with me being in Sheffield University. Note that the above e-mail
was sent from a private ISP and not from my Uni account (as this one has
been).

Regards,
José
--
José L Gómez Dans PhD student
Radar & Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK
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