From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Apr 3 1:20:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F4AF151A5 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 01:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 3556 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 1999 09:18:35 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 3534 invoked by uid 0); 3 Apr 1999 09:18:33 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 3 Apr 1999 09:18:33 -0000 Message-ID: <3705DCB1.640B948D@uswest.net> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 01:17:37 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake Cc: George Halek , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: handling posting errors [was: Disk geometry question.] References: <37055859.E945BB40@uswest.net> <19990403151145.59606@welearn.com.au> <3705C8A9.747F784D@uswest.net> <19990403185229.63533@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > If you are able and willing to answer support questions, your interest > in newbies will be most valuable in freebsd-questions. We need more > newbies to be seen asking questions there and to be seen getting > answers, since it is supposed to support the _whole_ user community. I do answer questions in -questions, and I often answer the ones that no one else seems willing to answer because they're considered "stupid newbie questions" by people who seem to have forgotten what it's like to be a newbie. My day job involves helping people solve problems and find answers and every day I hear them ask me what I used to ask, see them have trouble with things I used to worry over. I see myself in them and for that reason I take the time to help them. I just wish the tribal elders would clue into the fact that they're denying others the things that they take for granted. > If you feel sufficiently familiar with the list charters to gently guide > newbies to the appropriate use of the lists, don't let anyone make you > feel bad because of _their_ misunderstandings. But I'm human, not a sterile man page or a printed manual, it hurts everytime I get shot down for trying to help out. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message