Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 01:28:08 -0400 From: "Brett G. Castleberry" <bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> To: "Sue Blake" <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: "rick hamell" <hamellr@dsinw.com>, <otter@tig.com.au>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-Questions phobia [was: Very basic questions...] Message-ID: <001e01be9b6f$0f0c6be0$e620c992@s1o3q0> References: <3.0.5.32.19990510111738.007b0150@pop.tig.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.91.990509183540.9185M-100000@dsinw.com> <19990510124727.42190@welearn.com.au> <004201be9aab$2bf7d560$af23c992@s1o3q0> <19990510173120.51446@welearn.com.au>
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Sue:
What a fine moderator you are! I think I'm really suffering from pride
and a desire for it to be easier than it is. I've been a good bookman for
years, and here I'm a fish out of water, flopping on the beach, trying to
grow legs. I've sort of blustered my way into this unix world, and now I've
got to make sense. No, Dan, I don't have a question, because I haven't done
my homework. The patient, (my used 486,) has some scsi devices. I'm trying
to find out whether they are supported. I'll ask at "questions" when I've
looked everywhere else. The traffic on my library lists made "questions"
one list too many, (if you don't get enough mail, subscribe to Stumpers-L.)
The suggestion to use DejaNews is a good one. I had forgotten about
DejaNews, though I think that's where I first heard of FreeBSD. But let me
say that no one on either the FreeBSD or the Slackware lists has ever been
other than generous and helpful. BTW, Slackware has also chosen to use a
"forum" at its new site rather than usenet, for the same reasons here
stated. They also have a wonderful kind of beginners' package, ZipSlack,
which installs easily in a dos directory using umsdos on the hard drive or
on a Zip Disk.. I wish FreeBSD had this.
I don't know enough to help anybody use FreeBSD, but if you can't afford
to "fossick" (great word!) about trying to find the information you need
about FreeBSD, I would be willing to do searches for you and mail you the
URLs. Send me your topics. at bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu.
Sincerely,
Brett Castleberry
----- Original Message -----
From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
To: Brett G. Castleberry <bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
Cc: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>; <otter@tig.com.au>;
<freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 3:31 AM
Subject: FreeBSD-Questions phobia [was: Very basic questions...]
> On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:05:56AM -0400, Brett G. Castleberry wrote:
>
> > FreeBSD. As a really new newbie, I was glad to find a site just for
us.
> > But as a newbie, most of what I have to say is questions. Sometimes I
want
> > to know about something and I think, "It's a question, so I ought to
post it
> > to 'questions', but I 'll sound like an idiot there. And I can't post
it to
> > 'newbies' because they don't want questions."
>
> In that case you post to -questions, and if anyone dares laugh at you
> I'll have my attack-trained budgerigar drop its little presents all
> over their keyboard! (You gotta see what he does to believe it, ugh!)
>
> Do give freebsd-questions a go. We are no less eligible for the best
> support available than any other members of the community, whatever our
> needs are. As long as you show that you've made a reasonable effort to
> help yourself, and provide sufficient information for someone to give
> you an answer, nobody cares how beginnerish the question is, seriously!
> You know, there's people who hang out in freebsd-questions for weeks,
> just waiting for a question that's easy enough for them to answer. You
> might be in that situation yourself soon, so don't be selfish, share
> your questions on the -questions list while they're easy ones! :-)
>
> Oh occasionally there's a dork, as there is in every large group, but
> if you ever do get a hard time at least you can come back here and let
> off steam about it with us because, *because* we don't do support on
> this list. We're (theoretically) all only newbies here and if you're
> feeling a bit upset about how non-newbies react it's kinda nice to be
> able to thrash things out away from the inspection of the helpers
> (including those who might happily help you next time round).
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> -*Sue*-
> (`
> ()
> '` <-- a +3 uncursed budgerigar named Einstein
>
>
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