[bf1942] Absolutely OT: Emails to this list (Andreas, please ignore and keep doing your good work)

[Rowan Smith]

i agree, my inbox is full everyday of new crappy questions that could and
should be asked elsehwhere
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Steiger" <martin at steigi.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:35 AM
Subject: [bf1942] Absolutely OT: Emails to this list (Andreas, please ignore
and keep doing your good work)


> Hi all
>
> I'm following this list for about half a year now and I always wonder more
> about the behaviour of people on this list.
>
> Have you ever thought about that...
> ... more than 500 people have to go through your "spam-mails" (I don't
know
> any other word for this)?
> ... a software developer of DICE is reading this list?
> ... a software developer of DICE is even answering to this list?
> ... not everyone is interested in your "useless" comments? (even mine)
> ... not everyone is interested in merciless mod or any other clientside
> mods(is it linux related?)
>
> People are always complaining about how good Quake, Halflife (or whatever)
> games handle some issues. I actually don't play these games, but can
someone
> tell me, how old these games are? Don't you think the developers of these
> games had some more times to fix everything? Do you really expect
everything
> will be fixed on their (DICE) first linux release?
>
> Who promised you a working Linux-Server? Andreas? I don't think so... So
> please stop blaming him for the strategy of his company and be happy he's
> even keeping us up to date.
>
> I don't understand half of the linux issues here on the list (I admit, I'm
a
> noob) but be honest: at least half of all these emails we're getting are
not
> linux-server related. 30% are just some spammers who are try to get
they're
> one-liners into a discussion and 20% are asking questions like "how do I
run
> the linux server?". If you read a question of these last 20%, please don't
> answer with comments like "this is not linux related" or something like
> this. If you have time (and you're in the mood to do it), answer them
> outside the list. Believe me, they're more than happy with it and you will
> be a "god" for them. If not, just delete these mails.
>
> If my server is working (better) with the "update" from DICE, I'll be
happy
> with it (it's running since 51 days with maximum 16 players, no crash,
> nothing, just the bungee effect). If not, I'm sure they fix it later...
>
> Believe me, if Andreas (or anyone else from DICE) wouldn't be on this
list,
> I would have cancelled it since Ryan "left". But I like beeing kept up to
> date, so then I know what I can expect. Personally, I think the statements
> of Andreas were always very honest (more than you can expect).
>
> And please: if you feel you have to answer to this mail to flame me or to
> tell me, what an a...h.... I am, do it on mailto:bf1942 at steigi.com and not
> to this list (it's not a blackhole, I read them!)
>
> Ok, I stop spamming this list now!
>
> Cheers, Martin
>
> PS: I'd like to apologize for my statement on 25.3.2003 (I did it already
to
> Andreas), but heh, he answered less than 12 hours later with a status
> report...
>
>
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jim McKibben [mailto:jonny5 at socket.net]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. April 2003 20:38
> An: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Betreff: RE: [bf1942] Linux server status report 2003-04-22
>
>
> root at dev jonny5 # uname -a
> Linux dev.nova-labs.net 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 #3 SMP Sat Mar 29 02:50:09 CST
2003
> i686 Celeron (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> -jonny5
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: g8 [mailto:g8 at the.whole.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 1:12 PM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Linux server status report 2003-04-22
>
> Indeed, same here (FreeBSD only).  Perhaps we need a poll of what distros
> people will be running.  I will also be running FreeBSD (as are a great
> many gaming/hosting providers).
>
> -g8
>
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Thomas M. Skeren III wrote:
>
> > Yeah I got 1.31 running of FreeBSD 5.0 as well.  Let me know if I can be
> > of assistance, because if 1.4 doesn't work on that platform,  I won't be
> > running a bf server :-(
> >
> > g8 wrote:
> >
> > >And if you want a FreeBSD 5 development environment Andreas I have a
> > >5.0-Release test box here just waiting for you to login :).  Let me
know.
> > >
> > >-g8
> > >
> > >On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Killing wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Depends how portable the core code is? It may be a recompile for
native
> FreeBSD
> > >>support, but I doubt it. Usually takes quite a bit of work but Andreas
> might be lucky :)
> > >>
> > >>If you need any testers though Andreas u know where we are.
> > >>
> > >>    Steve / K
>
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