Re: Cpanel boycott

[Peter Asplund]

I do wish I'd gotten this many answers to my help question regarding
dual-booting with Grub. I got one answer that said "Stop using
Windows" and that was it.

Meanwhile, this must be the most replied-to e-mail this year on this
mailing list.

BR,
Peter

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>   1. Re: Cpanel boycott (Neal Murphy)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:33:35 -0500
> From: Neal Murphy <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: Cpanel boycott
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> On Thursday 22 December 2011 20:07:08 jackie sparks wrote:
>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Cpanel/324347710917547
>
> I perused the link. Whether or not it details valid concerns is immaterial to
> the expressed purpose of this mailing list. What is material is that the topic
> of the link has nothing whatever to do with grub or assisting users of grub to
> work through problems they have using grub.
>
> According to the democratic rules governing this list, you lost your argument
> before you started. Your original message was off-topic--totally unrelated--
> and, thus, should not have been posted to this list in the first place. You
> were wrong to post it to this list, you were wrong to reject the initial,
> plain chastisement for doing so, you were wrong for escalating your rhetoric,
> and your continuing actions serve only to erode any support you might have
> received from members of this list. Please do us the favor of dropping the
> subject.
>
> Good day to you.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:41:51 -0500
> From: jackie sparks <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Subject: RE: Cpanel boycott
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>
> Very nice response. I misread the Chris part(a personal dramatic experience) 
> in the last post, but I still feel I won. If I wasn't winning the two of you 
> would have tried so much to block it and stop it. Only important serious 
> matters are the ones people block with hate an disgust. The non-important 
> ones are the ones people just brush off. Obviously it is a major issue. Thank 
> you dropped.
>
> This wasn't the argument and battle I wanted to have but if you wouldn't have 
> tried to block it so bad that would have made it a non-important issue. Thank 
> you
>
> Dropped. I still love you two. :)
>
>> From: address@hidden
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: Cpanel boycott
>> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:33:35 -0500
>>
>> On Thursday 22 December 2011 20:07:08 jackie sparks wrote:
>> > https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Cpanel/324347710917547
>>
>> I perused the link. Whether or not it details valid concerns is immaterial to
>> the expressed purpose of this mailing list. What is material is that the 
>> topic
>> of the link has nothing whatever to do with grub or assisting users of grub 
>> to
>> work through problems they have using grub.
>>
>> According to the democratic rules governing this list, you lost your argument
>> before you started. Your original message was off-topic--totally unrelated--
>> and, thus, should not have been posted to this list in the first place. You
>> were wrong to post it to this list, you were wrong to reject the initial,
>> plain chastisement for doing so, you were wrong for escalating your rhetoric,
>> and your continuing actions serve only to erode any support you might have
>> received from members of this list. Please do us the favor of dropping the
>> subject.
>>
>> Good day to you.
>>
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> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:11:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: Thomas Joseph <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: Cpanel boycott
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> To the mailing-list,
>
> Personally,
>
> I don't think that jackie is in violation.
>
> Agreed, this is a grub list. But, why would someone use grub ?
>
> To boot.
>
> And why someone would definitely have to have it to boot?
>
> Why not, 'well .. it is not booting. I can do a fresh install and try ..?'
>
> He is a sysadmin. He is answerable to the entire org if one server he
> commands fail.
>
> And why is Jackie's post important to us ?
>
> Many of us use cpanel, whether we like it or not ..
>
> As a sysadmin,I do have concerns about the machines I am responsible for.
>
> I would take it positive, if anyone brings in a point.
>
> And I would take it as a spam if jackie's post did say something like
>
> "Bad credit? No problem. We can help you" or the sort.
>
> Saying again, jackie was trying to convey a possible dos if anyone of us
> running a certain mail server under cpanel.
>
> I stay away from comments wrt the responses jackie got and the way he 
> answered.
>
> Ppl, think the hole is a Tsunami and jackie wanted to alert everyone that
> it is coming, whether you live in the vicinity or in a distant continent.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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> --- On Fri, 12/23/11, Neal Murphy <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> From: Neal Murphy <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Cpanel boycott
>> To: address@hidden
>> Date: Friday, December 23, 2011, 7:03 AM
>> On Thursday 22 December 2011 20:07:08
>> jackie sparks wrote:
>> > https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Cpanel/324347710917547
>>
>> I perused the link. Whether or not it details valid
>> concerns is immaterial to
>> the expressed purpose of this mailing list. What is
>> material is that the topic
>> of the link has nothing whatever to do with grub or
>> assisting users of grub to
>> work through problems they have using grub.
>>
>> According to the democratic rules governing this list, you
>> lost your argument
>> before you started. Your original message was
>> off-topic--totally unrelated--
>> and, thus, should not have been posted to this list in the
>> first place. You
>> were wrong to post it to this list, you were wrong to
>> reject the initial,
>> plain chastisement for doing so, you were wrong for
>> escalating your rhetoric,
>> and your continuing actions serve only to erode any support
>> you might have
>> received from members of this list. Please do us the favor
>> of dropping the
>> subject.
>>
>> Good day to you.
>>
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