From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 06:46:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA28002 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 06:46:55 -0800 Received: from queeg.com (brion@queeg.com [204.95.70.218]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA27985 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 06:46:47 -0800 Received: (from brion@localhost) by queeg.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id GAA04122; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 06:46:34 -0800 From: Brion Moss Message-Id: <199511131446.GAA04122@queeg.com> Subject: Re: questions vs answers (was: PPP problem--LCP timeout) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 06:46:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: brion@queeg.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511130453.EAA19416@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 13, 95 04:53:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 645 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Mike Smith wrote: > > Brion Moss stands accused of saying: > > > Also, when doing searches in the mailing list archives on the web > > page (at www.freebsd.org) is there any way to tell it only to give > > you response, not the original questions? I did a search and got a > > huge number of questions but only two or three responses. > > What's the difference between a question and a response? A question is someone saying "how do you...?" and a response is someone saying "this is how you..." I don't know how to tell the difference as far as doing searches goes (and there may be no way) but I figured it didn't hurt to ask. -Brion