Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:28:51 -0600 From: "Patrick Bowen" <pbowen@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous Message-ID: <1143232131.31331.257470137@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <200603241205.35897.oliver-forward@charter.net> References: <200603241110.11254.oliver-forward@charter.net> <20060324194710.GL42429@dan.emsphone.com> <200603241205.35897.oliver-forward@charter.net>
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:05:35 -0800, "Oliver Iberien" <oliver-forward@charter.net> said: > I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as > this > one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who > post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to > spam people's inboxes and/or the with thank-you notes that may be > archived > for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks? > > Oliver > > > On Friday 24 March 2006 11:47, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Mar 24), Oliver Iberien said: > > > This may be a silly question, but I wanted to make sure: > > > > > > I have a SCSI R/W CD-ROM drive and an IDE DVD read-only drive. There > > > have been times with linux where enabling SCSI emulation made the > > > actual SCSI drive unavailable to k3b. I just want to make sure that > > > adding ATAPICAM won't somehow get in the way of the actual SCSI > > > device. Will it? > > > > At worst it may shuffle the device number if the atapi drive gets > > probed first. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Oliver: I think it's generally expected that you reply to their help with something like "Bummer, that didn't work." or "That fixed my problem! Thanks so much!!" I don't know, however, whether "thank you"'s should be privately or to the list. I usually say my thanks on the list. I guess I feel that public help should receive public praise. Patrick -- Patrick Bowen pbowen@fastmail.fm
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