From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 22:48:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FADA106564A for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:48:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8052A8FC14 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:48:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl23-31.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.150.31]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m2RMYr8r008502 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:35:01 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2RMYr0t001630; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:34:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m2RKt90n001497; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:55:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" References: <203129.47088.qm@web35603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <47EAE0D3.8010202@student.utwente.nl> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:55:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: <47EAE0D3.8010202@student.utwente.nl> (Alphons van Werven's message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:48:35 +0000") Message-ID: <87ej9v99ar.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m2RMYr8r008502 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.886, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.51, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Passive PROFITS , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question - about newbie user support X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:48:06 -0000 On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:48:35 +0000, "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" wrote: > Passive PROFITS wrote: >> Alphons ... a.k.a. 'Fonz' in the future? (Let me know!) > > 1) Whereas -chat is (somewhat to my surprise) a relatively low-traffic > list, -questions covers a broad range of topics. So be prepared to > receive many messages, most of which are of absolutely no interest to > you (or me, for that matter). > > 2) Because of the higher traffic, it's important to carefully compose > your messages so that the right people notice them and feel compelled > to respond. Look for the weekly post by "grog" (Greg Lehey) about > getting the best out of freebsd-questions (it can also be found in the > online archives), it's quite useful. Good points... The posting by Greg is also available online as an official FreeBSD `article' at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/ So you don't have to dig into the archives or wait for it to reappear in the mailing list to read and enjoy it. To the original poster: ``Welcome to -chat, and we'll also be happy to have you in -questions :-)'' - Giorgos