Re: error with buildkernel

Chronos <chronos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After replacing Michel Talon with a small shell script on Friday 18 Aug
2006 19:41, the following appeared on stdout:
He is even knowledgeable enough that he is a FreeBSD core member!

That did sort of fly past my head at mach 5 until you pointed it out. I
really should pay more attention to who does what.

Surprising what celebrities you meet on Usenet and IRC these days. ;-)

/me waves at keramida

*grin*

This being said, answers to posts are read non only by the one asking the
question, but by other parties who may find interesting clues in such
answers even if a troll has sollicited them.

That's also one of the reasons I don't often killfile trolls as "posters". I
prefer to killfile the threads after I or someone else made a useful remark.
The end-result is the same: no long screen-cluttering threads of people trying
on again the impossible task of educating a troll.

Killing a thread is just as fast as killing a poster and the killfile entry
might catch a discussion of a hundred posts. Killing a troll only works until
he changes his name. Which is about twenty times per thread.

Spare your teeth: kill threads, not posters! :-) Helpful people scored highly
will jump out despite the killed thread too. Bonus!

- Philip

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