From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 17:23:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574FB37B424 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13Ue1J-0008Iy-00; Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:45:21 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA77786; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 00:45:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 00:45:21 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000901004521.A72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000831195958.B54301@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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