From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 11:19:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27995 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:19:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from greeves.mfn.org (greeves.mfn.org [204.238.179.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27988 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:19:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from noc.mfn.org (noc.mfn.org [204.238.179.35]) by greeves.mfn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA12542; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 13:19:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: by noc.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BDADC1.88633BA0@noc.mfn.org>; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 18:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <01BDADC1.88633BA0@noc.mfn.org> From: NOC-GFX To: "sysadmin@mfn.org" , "'Thomas Dean'" Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: Testing Connectivity, Please IGNORE Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 18:18:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Consider this: We have already traded mails privately on the RTFM thing, but, since you want it to be public, here goes. This list is "Freebsd-QUESTIONS". Get it? People *ASK QUESTIONS* here. That why it's *called* questions. Your fixed response of "Read the Handbook, Part X, Chapter Y, Subsection Z, Paragraph Z.xyz" does NOT provide everything that is needed when someone asks a question here. People are NOT always going to read the manual. Sometimes they read it, but don't see it, even if it's there. Maybe it's there, but they don't know *where* to look for it. This is forum of interactive "SUPPORT". *NOT* a self-appointed "Pompous Guardian of the Manual" glee club. If you don't like the fact that people ask questions which have answers somewhere else, then you should NOT follow -questions! A Friendly Answer will do more than a Technically-Correct one. Now, to repeat what I said earlier, *off-list*: Stick It. J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org ---------- From: Thomas Dean Sent: Sunday, July 12, 1998 6:59 PM To: sysadmin@mfn.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing Connectivity, Please IGNORE Obviously, someone cannot read the manual. > From: NOC-GFX > Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:45:33 +0100 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Stick your RTFM... > > ---------- > From: Thomas Dean > Sent: Sunday, July 12, 1998 6:08 PM > To: sysadmin@mfn.org > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Testing Connectivity, Please IGNORE > > > Sorry, but I *had* to use -questions. For some reason I had not received > ^^^^^ > READ THE HANDBOOK at www.freebsd.org/handbook, part 5, section 27.1, > sub-section 27.1.2. > > Look at the paragraph about majordomo help. After you get help from > majordomo, you will understand why you did not need to send test > messages to -questions. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message