From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 18:25: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A397137B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5ED43E65 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 085E881441; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:55:00 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:54:59 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Jerry McAllister , alireza mahini , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is ther any debugger for c and c++ programs in freebsd4.4? Message-ID: <20021010012459.GC87617@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200210082011.g98KBxB12900@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-hidden-answer: Here is the answer you're looking for Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 9 October 2002 at 13:36:07 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Jerry McAllister writes: > >> Please put your question in the body of your message and limit the >> subject to jsut a title for your posting. >> It will make it much easier for people to read your question and >> to make a helpful response. > > I find it easier to read one question in the subject line and not have > to read something (restated in question form?) in the body. When you get a paper letter in an envelope, would you find it normal to find just a signature on the paper and the real message written on the back of the envelope underneath the name of the sender? > Please explain your complaint further. What is the problem? Do > people not read Subject lines? I certainly read subject lines. They help me decide whether I want to read the message. Once I read a message, I expect to find something useful there. > I'm suprised (and somewhat embarassed for FreeBSD) to see 3 out of 4 > responders jump on the guy about something that seems to me good, or > at least no worse than trivially non-standard. Certainly a little more help would be good. But I suppose it's all a matter of expectations. In the Microsoft world, it seems that people don't have a problem with text like this: On Wednesday, 9 October 2002 at 13:36:07 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Jerry McAllister writes: > >> Please put your question in the body of your message and limit the >> subject to jsut a title for your posting. >> It will make it much easier for people to read your question and >> to make a helpful response. > > I find it easier to read one question in the subject line and not have > to read something (restated in question form?) in the body. (end of quotation). It's almost as if people have flocked to abandon what they learnt in school, because it's "cool" to have text scattered all over the place. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message