Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:13:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts Message-ID: <19981007121358.L27781@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981007002333.50430@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:23:33AM %2B0100 References: <19981006071237.02443@follo.net> <19981006155341.C27781@freebie.lemis.com> <19981006083809.00946@follo.net> <19981006173417.64829@welearn.com.au> <19981006174328.65315@follo.net> <19981007002333.50430@nothing-going-on.org>
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On Wednesday, 7 October 1998 at 0:23:33 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 05:43:28PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>> Dos and Don'ts of FreeBSD
>> -------------------------
>>
>> DON'T expect to get help on IRC, and don't attempt to demand it.
>> #freebsd is a cesspool; the people you see there are not
>> representative of the FreeBSD community (and I can say this
>> with immunity, as I'm one of them :-)
>
> DON'T expect postings to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc to reach active
> FreeBSD developers. Most of them despair of the signal/noise
> ratio, and concentrate on reading the mailing lists.
Good one. How about rephrasing:
DON'T use the USENET newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc if you can
use the FreeBSD mailing lists (FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.com)
instead. Few FreeBSD developers read the newsgroup.
> DO use Usenet search engines such as DejaNews <URL:http://www.dejanews.com/>;
> to search for information before posting. Searching for error
> messages can be particularly informative.
Also good. But maybe not enough. How about:
DO use the FreeBSD web site and Usenet search engines such as
DejaNews <URL:http://www.dejanews.com/>; to search for
information before posting. Searching DejaNews for error
messages can be particularly informative.
Greg
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