From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Oct 6 19:44:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10201 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:44:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@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 TAA10174 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:44:21 -0700 (PDT) (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 MAA25084; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:13:59 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA04602; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:13:58 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981007121358.L27781@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:13:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nik Clayton , Eivind Eklund , Sue Blake Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981007002333.50430@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:23:33AM +0100 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-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > 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 to search for information before posting. Searching DejaNews for error messages can be particularly informative. 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-doc" in the body of the message