Slammer

[amazing powers of observation]

  NOT A VERY GOOD POLICY IN THE FACE AND SPRITE OF what fedora core is 
all about. sure we get a few of those but
 its part of the sys.  i think a cryptic answere is better than not one 
at all .

Peter Cannon wrote:

>Hi All
>
>I belong to a number of mailing lists, I suppose most newcomers do the
>same thing, join every club at first and then whittle it down to the
>best ones when they have gained experience.
>
>The one thing that really p*+!@s me off are individuals who refuse to
>help or give cryptic answers, yes I know we've been here before, stick
>with me and I'll get to the point.
>
>Just lately some of the postings on certain lists have been getting
>quite strong one guy said that he saw no reason to help anyone as he had
>invested a lot of time and money teaching himself and why should he make
>life easy for someone else! (I'm still confused as to why he joined a
>mailing list?) 
>
>So I would like to create a new catch phrase for this type of person,
>you know like, Spam, Hacker, Cracker, Newbie and so on.
>
>I propose "SLAMMER" the idea being that they slam the door in your face.
>
>If it takes off, in a couple of months time I can look back and say "I
>started that".
>
>Thoughts, comments and insults in the usual way please. 
>
>Regards
>
>Peter Cannon
>
>peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
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