Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:32:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com> Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@1nova.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: and if -questions doesn't work? Message-ID: <20001206133226.C20481@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20001201155659.8535.qmail@web1103.mail.yahoo.com>; from tperlin@yahoo.com on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:56:58AM -0800 References: <20001201155659.8535.qmail@web1103.mail.yahoo.com>
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I don't really know where to start answering this message, so I'll just leave it below. At http://www.lemis.com/questions.html there's a description of the reasons why you might not get an answer from -questions. It covers most of the reasons given on this thread, and then some. My biggest personal peeve is mutilated mail. When I see messages like the one below, I don't even try to read them, I just delete them. For more details, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html. Greg On Friday, 1 December 2000 at 7:56:58 -0800, Tim Erlin wrote: > That's a fair response, but doesn't do much for > FreeBSD advocacy. I can't help but think that > marketshare (read Micro$oft) is obtained by making it > easy to find help; configuration for the lazy, if you > will. Maybe I misread the goals of the community. > > I can't choose a side here; I respect an OS or > application that requires you to learn it, to > understand how it works before you can run it > effectively, but that requirement seems to relegate > FreeBSD to a hobby until I become an expert...and > since it's a hobby, that may never happen. > > --Tim > "Look Ma, I'm using -newbies for a discussion!" > > --- Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> wrote: >> >>> People consistently send questions to this list, >> and >>> are consistenly advised to send them to >> -questions. >>> I've taken those comments to heart and sent >> several of >>> my questions to -questions. But what do I do if >> they >>> don't get answered? >> >> Well, 90% of the time when I don't get an answer to >> my questions >> it's because I asked it without doing much research. >> These days I mostly >> try to ask "Where can I find some more info on >> ....." and I'll get two or >> three good pointers. After a bit of research, I'm >> usually ready to come >> back and ask a more pointed question. >> Of the other 10% of questions, it's usually because >> I'm asking >> about some program that no one really uses, or it's >> been answered to death >> on both the list (mail archives!) and in the >> handbook. >> >> Rick >> >> > ******************************************************************* >> Rick's FreeBSD Web page >> http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd >> Ace Logan's Hardware Guide >> http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware >> ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! >> http://www.freebsd.org >> >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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