From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 23 16:35:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26037 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gutenberg.uoregon.edu (gutenberg.uoregon.edu [128.223.56.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26026 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:35:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by gutenberg.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA15420; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:38:30 -0700 From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: David Marsh cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD Newbies FAK In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, David Marsh wrote: > FreeBSD-questions is a very busy list, and so far, I'm duly subscribed > to it, but it is very timeconsuming to wade through. From my previous > internet experience, I know that it's generally considered rude to fire > questions at a list you don't subscribe to. I think that this is different in the case of -questions. It's just like any other tech support list at a company (which the users wouldn't be *able* to subscribe to). You send questions to the generic support address, whoever knows the answer first replies to you and cc's the list so that the others will know that the question has been answered. That's how all of the support lists I am on work.... Sean -- Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu|"It's not a habit, it's cool. http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ | I feel alive." NeXTMail OK! | --k's Choice To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message