From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 16:03:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21467 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:03:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21451 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA09688; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:32:59 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id KAA97647; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:32:59 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:32:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Glass Steve NTC/Boston Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-questions , Steve Glass Subject: Re: When did FreeBSD begin supporting th Message-ID: <19990127103258.P66239@freebie.lemis.com> References: <1999Jan26.175600.1991.451698@rhino.ntc.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <1999Jan26.175600.1991.451698@rhino.ntc.nokia.com>; from Glass Steve NTC/Boston on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:59:06PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at 17:59:06 -0500, Glass Steve NTC/Boston wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at 20:39:27 +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Steve Glass wrote: >>> >>>> Subject: When did FreeBSD begin supporting the 4.4 BSD network kernel? >>>> >>>> That about sums it up (email needs a tag in the subject for "that's >>>> all, folks")... >> >> Well, no, Email needs a text. It's confusing to write the message in >> the subject line. > > Can I assume, then, that my email was confusing? Yes. > Sometimes you just want to send a short, one-line email, and if you > can put quickly in the subject, why not. Because it's no easier, and it's confusing. > Then again, getting people to just hit 'd', or 'r' without opening > is the *real* problem. I think the real problem is that it's too difficult to write and read mail messages with some mailers, including the Microsoft Mail you use. In this connection, you should note that your message came in a single line; I had to reformat it to make it legible. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message