From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Nov 30 12:10:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08767 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fig.mail.easynet.net (fig.mail.easynet.net [195.40.1.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA08755 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:10:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@sour.cream.org) Received: (qmail 27820 invoked from network); 30 Nov 1998 20:10:16 -0000 Received: from boothman.easynet.co.uk (HELO localhost) (194.154.100.117) by fig.mail.easynet.net with SMTP; 30 Nov 1998 20:10:16 -0000 Received: from sour.cream.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00645; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 18:40:20 GMT (envelope-from andrew@sour.cream.org) Message-ID: <3662E694.53199D37@sour.cream.org> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 18:40:20 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: ML Duke , alissa bader , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to ask questions (was: installation problems) References: <3660A011.68F02857@sour.cream.org> <19981129144239.F6182@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > There's really no alternative: the obvious solution is to find out how > to ask questions correctly. http://www.lemis.com/questions.html is a > good place to start. You're absolutely right. I tend to just slam down my thoughts about problems which people have, without really considering the fact that someone might act on them! :-) IMHO, your "How to ask questions" page should be required reading for every FreeBSD user who wants to ask a question. It really is that important. -- Andrew Boothman http://sour.cream.org/ http://www.boothman.easynet.co.uk/andrew/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message