From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jul 1 16:09:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11268 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:09:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11260 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id IAA13046; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:39:09 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980702083909.K10452@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:39:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kulp , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows 98 References: <000701bda4eb$64bfc080$446235ce@tmekscds> <19980701151216.01366@demon.net> <19980701081718.A14383@mooseriver.com> <359A6162.2781@cs.strath.ac.uk> <199807011835.LAA27884@board66.cruzers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807011835.LAA27884@board66.cruzers.com>; from David Kulp on Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 11:35:37AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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