Subject: Re: Improper postings (was Re: CD-ROM driver)
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/05/2001 07:59:43
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:52:22AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> : >Please send me the following driver:=20
> : >OTI-91x   ATAPI   CD-ROM
> :
> : I can't help but think that we've told *you personally* before that you
> : are asking in the wrong place.
> 
> Actually, several people have made the same request.  So I have a weird
> feeling that some publication, web site, or other braindead reference has
> tagged netbsd-help as "the place to find drivers" for whatever reason.
> 
> It might be better to ask some of these people why they posted to
> netbsd-help asking for these drivers -- so that the errant reference can be
> found and destroyed.

Except that the few that I've seen have exactly the same text.  Is there
some sort of automated tool that sends driver requests or are people just 
playing a practical joke now that Peter has 'had words'?