Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:39:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows 98 Message-ID: <19980702083909.K10452@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807011835.LAA27884@board66.cruzers.com>; from David Kulp on Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 11:35:37AM -0700 References: <000701bda4eb$64bfc080$446235ce@tmekscds> <19980701151216.01366@demon.net> <19980701081718.A14383@mooseriver.com> <359A6162.2781@cs.strath.ac.uk> <199807011835.LAA27884@board66.cruzers.com>
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On Wednesday, 1 July 1998 at 11:35:37 -0700, David Kulp wrote: > Roger Hardiman writes: >>>> why on earth would anyone want to ask a Windows 98 Question on a >>>> FreeBSD mailing list? >> >>> The fact that they are using a microshit product should be a good hint. >>> >> >> It is becoming increasingly common for Win95/NT/98 questions to >> pop up on this group. But none knows why. > > Here's a guess: go to www.findmail.com, scroll to the bottom, and > search for "STB" or "BT848". freebsd-multimedia comes up frequently. > As Roger said, the person making the query probably hasn't a clue > about what "freebsd" means, but "multimedia" sounds promising. Yes, this seems reasonable. A message about Macintosh disks appeared in -questions yesterday, saying they were having problems with the language on the web site. Turned out they had picked up some dejanews things and had been looking at a Japanese web site. I fear this problem is here to stay. Hopefully we'll be able to deal with the next one with less than 10 followups. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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