[CS-FSLUG] Nathan

[David McGlone]

On Sunday 25 April 2004 03:48 pm, N. Thompson wrote:

> >If I might make such a bold suggestion: whaddya say about taking off
> >that blog post for now? Try the peacemaking steps Jesus gave us: go
> >contact the people privately that you feel have hurt you. I bet they
> >will apologize and say they never meant to imply what you feel they are
> >implying. If not, talk to this list as a whole and see if we can't
> >resolve things. If none of that resolves the situation for you, then go
> >ahead and paste that entry back online -- I just doubt that will be
> >necessary.
> >
> >	Just keep in mind we all love ya, bro.
> >
> >	Blessings to you...
> >
> >	-Tim
>
> Sure, I can take the blog post down, I didn't realize how it would be
> interpreted until I read David's post.

The purpose of me asking if I could put it on my blog instead of nate taking 
it down is because most members that nathan has refered to, hasn't had a 
chance to read it so they could respond appropriatly and try to explain to 
nathan their exact words.

Or it would be just as good to post the blog entry on the list so it can be 
discussed.

Another reason it would be good is because people can refer back to the 
mailing archives in an effort to explain to Nathan what they really mean in 
contrast to what Nathan had posted in an attempt to help him feel better and 
let him know that we were not trying to be mean, but trying to get him to 
realize things.

I offered to try and help you with your Mandrake, IIRC Tim did too. And this 
was when version 9.2 had just came out.

From there, I don't remember everything in order, but somehow you ended up 
running gentoo? or some other distro that you said you bought and didn't want 
to abandon until you felt you got your money's worth.

But I kept trying to persuade you to go back to Mandrake and I would give you 
all the help I could in an effort to get your system running smoothly.

You also ignored that offer for help.

You then was offered SuSE disks from IIRC Ed Hurst? or somebody, and they 
burnt you a copy of SuSE and even paid for the shipping to send you those 
CD's in an effort to try and help you out. While you were trying out SuSE, 
you IIRC stated that you didn't like Mandrake anymore, and SuSE was working 
good  for you at the moment, except for a few minor things you didn't 
perticularily like.

Somehow along the way I think you ended up back with mandrake, until here 
recently you decided to give Fedora Core 1 a shot after I had installed it 
and praised it in some areas.

and while you were running fedora, you praised how you liked the mix between 
automated configuration and hard configuration, but all along since I can 
remember, you were not happy with mandrake, because you claimed you didn't 
like their configuration tools and was tired of having to do configuration by 
hand and wanted more or better configuration tools.

Somewhere along the line you chose to give Slackware a try. After a matter of 
an hour or so you wrote to the list praising some things about slack.

It wasn't within a day or so, you then started praising mandrake again, after 
you had made mandrake sound like it was the worst distro you'd ever seen, and 
hinted to the list you were going to go back to either Mandrake or SuSE IIRC.

Then someone on the list made an attempt to get you to hold off going back to 
SuSE or Mandrake because they had some things that might help you out with 
Slack. (another attempt to help you) Which I don't know at the moment whether 
you have held off or not but your journal entry was completly the opposite.

My question is, How could you say those things? I have done nothing but try to 
be a brother to you and of as much help as I could in an effort to help you 
get an almost "ideal" install of linux, but I can't help you, nor can anyone 
else help you if you install a different distro every other day.

It's not getting you nowhere at all and that is something the list has been 
trying to tell you for a very long time, and yes there has been times some 
harsh words have been used because you were contradicting youself too much, 
but Nathan, sometimes it takes a harsh word to get somebody to realize 
something, but in *NO* way has anyone on this list tried to hurt you, so 
*PLEASE* understand that.

David M.





>
> >On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 10:18, David McGlone wrote:
> >>Your Blog does not have the ability to post comments, so would you care
> >> if I posted your most recent blog entry on my blog, because I think all
> >> this has been misunderstood and you should at least give some of the
> >> people you refered to a chance to explain themselves and explain to you
> >> why they chose the words they did.
> >>
> >>I really think you owe that to some of the people on this list, including
> >> me.