Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD Kernel Feature Requests, interesting info for dfly?

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

James Mansion wrote:
> >    Fine.  Go and do it, instead of complaining about it.
>
> I'm sure you'll check the IP and find that actually I'm not
> Danial/Dmitri/whatever, but please, take a step back before
> writing this sort of thing.

James,

no, we normally don't check IP addresses. Before em1897/Danial/Dimitri 
(please don't confuse him with Dmitri Nikulin who is a respected 
community member) hit the stage, I actually wouldn't have thought that 
this would ever be necessary.

If you browse the mail archive a bit, you'll find that his questions 
were initially responded to with long, friendly and very interesting 
explanations by Matt (some of which even made it to Justin's DragonFly 
Digest).

It was only after it became clear that his intent was insulting people 
and their work that more drastic measures were invented. First, threads 
were simply terminated by making it impossible to continue them, then 
his email address was banned, now, ultimately, it's his IP address.

Please do not base your judgement on this one mail. It has a long and 
annoying history.

Sascha

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