Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 00:45:21 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000901004521.A72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000831134207.5950A-100000@utah> References: <20000831195958.B54301@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000831134207.5950A-100000@utah>
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Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > >> May I suggest that if you're not going to give a helpful answer, that >> you don't give _any_ answer. Smart-ass comments like this don't do much >> for FreeBSD's image. > > If you look a little closer, you will see a lone smiley face on a line all > by itself. Smiley's are often used to indicate humor in a medium where > body language is not available. I probably did miss that, but I think someone asking a genuine question doesn't really deserve a joke answer. I expect if you asked question and got a joke answer you wouldn't be particularly impressed, especially if you were new to FreeBSD. > Have you seen the FAQ on "scratching noises" in memory? > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html > > Surely that meets your definition of a smart ass comment. I think it's > funny. That FAQ even goes so far is to tell the user to 'fdisk /mbr' for > crying out loud. That's not funny! (but it is) Well I've never actually seen anyone ask that question, so this is a little different. Perhaps people did... > Perhaps we should remove this portion of what are obviously not frequently > asked questions to protect FreeBSD's image. I think you have missed my point, but never mind. A question like that in the FAQ is very different to someone getting a joke answer to their *specific* emailed question. > And above all damnit... > > :) Well indeed. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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