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[Jim Kinney]

Thanks for the history and perspective!
As always, this is a group of diverse people with a commonality called
Linux. Now I can't stand those lamer 'buntuu people cause they so smug
cause they use a baby version of debian like fedora does the heads up smack
down on corpratist deadrat but least gives back an all.
:-)
 On Jan 25, 2012 7:35 PM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 17:49 -0500, Steve Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Steve Brown <scbrown3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Chris Farris, I believe? I could try and did up the email, it was
> pretty
> > > intense from what I remember.
> > >
> > > -Steve Brown
>
> > Sorry, the above originally only sent to Michael W. Here are the emails
> > Chris Farris wrote in 2006 about leaving the list:
> > http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/2006-September/089914.html
> > http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/2006-September/089916.html
> > http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/2006-October/090598.html
>
> I thought you might be referring to Chris but wasn't going to cast
> aspersions without confirmation...
>
> I worked with Chris for a year or so when he was at ISS and I still like
> him and would count him as a friend.  Recently had to deal with him for
> things like the ALE domain and DNS stuff.  Life goes on and he has had
> to move on.  He's good people but has been known to have his brash
> moments as have we all.
>
> All that being said...  I remember that time, and prior, well.  He gave
> as well as he took and he offended as many as offended him (and I hope
> he's lurking and reading this - as he has been known to do).  He even
> volunteered to tip a server on top of Tod Lewis, one time after a
> particularly BAD rant on the part of Herr Lewis, and I wigged out and
> went absolutely nuclear on his ass on another mailing list common
> between the three of us.
>
> Chris is not "the founder" of ALE but is "a founder" of ALE (albeit
> major founder) like Vern and myself and several others (too many to
> remember or name this late at night) who are still on this list.  Don't
> paint us all with the same brush.  I'm brusk and offensive and strongly
> opinionated at times but that also tends to make me somewhat more
> tolerant of others like me although also somewhat inclined to whip out
> the nuclear flame thrower at times, because I'm use to people like
> Chris.
>
> I'm still here.  Many of us are still here.  We are all individuals.  I
> endure (and participate in) the rants and I endure the OTs because this
> is a good group.
>
> Honestly...  The signal to noise ratio is far better on this list than
> on several other lists I've put up with.  Some people are not going to
> put up with anything and, in their leaving, do the very damn thing they
> object to - add to the noise and degrade the signal to try and make a
> personal point.  So be it.
>
> > -Steve Brown
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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