I just posted that link. Yet you must think everyone is just plain dumb for not paying attention to the source of the link by simply doing a mouse-over.
Beam me up, Scottie!
I just posted that link. Yet you must think everyone is just plain dumb for not paying attention to the source of the link by simply doing a mouse-over.
Beam me up, Scottie!
Verification
To Jim Robinson | 09/03/2003 10:20 PM CDT sent
I normally wouldn't bother you with something this trivial, but a user has posted some info I felt needed to be verified.
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In this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/974961/posts?page=35#35
Coral Snake writes:
"I appologize for accusing any Linux users here of practicing censorship. I sent a Freep Mail to Jim Robinson and found out it is the official Free Republic policy to place these tech threads in the General Interest forum from now on. Just reminding all of you out there when you are ready to start posting them again so that you won't be banned for constantly placing these threads in the wrong forum."
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Have you made such a statement? If not, I'm sorry to bother you - I suspect that this user may hope to minimize the visibilty of this important ongoing story. If you did state that we only post this to general, please excuse me while I express that this lawsuit has important ramifications all linux users (and seeing that FR runs on Apache and Linux, this includes you).
I respectfully ask that you allow us to continue to post this to the frontpage news section so long as we stay off the breaking news.
I would consider posting to breaking news ONLY if SCO's offices were raided by law enforcement or something of that scale happened. There is an Enron style scandal developing here. This story does have the potential to create the occasional breaking news story.
I received this in return
Re: Verification
From Jim Robinson | 09/03/2003 11:13 PM CDT read
He asked me (paraphrasing) if he should post his threads to the general interest forum since we seem to be moving them all there anyway. I said yes, it would save us the trouble
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So, it does change the way I read your earlier post. Jim doesn't say anything about banning users. Just that he would prefer a post to General. That seems to be a distortion as far as I'm concerned. Coral Snake, I really don't give much credibility to anything you say anymore - but you really should consider that some things are easy to verify before you distort them.
I will, however, obey Jim's wishes that we keep this story in General. If A major development occurs that calls (IMHO) for this story to go to another section, I'm not going to lose any sleep over placing it there. I'll simply inform Jim of why I felt it was needed.
And before you even ask Coral Snake - if you do something and I bust you on it I will share the info with the others.