From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 11:54:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA22651 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:54:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA22640 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA11616; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:51:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603311951.MAA11616@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: replies to list To: brian@filoli.com (Brian Queen) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:51:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Queen" at Mar 30, 96 05:39:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I frequently see questions people ask that I would like to know the > answer to, but I never see the answer on the list. > > I suspect the questions are being answered, but via private email. > > For the benefit of students like myself, would it be OK to post the > answers to the list unless there is a pressing privacy issue? > > This will also increase the utility of the mailing list archives which > currently have many good questions without the answers. Unless there is a privacy issue, I *always* post my responses to the list, precisely because of the list archives. In my opinion, they are there on the questions list to act as a searchable support database. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.