From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 28 0: 3:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 787CD14D01 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:03:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 7915 invoked from network); 28 Aug 1999 07:02:00 -0000 Received: from toy.chip-web.com (@172.16.1.30) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 28 Aug 1999 07:02:00 -0000 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:01:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Ludwig Pummer X-Sender: ludwigp@toy.chip-web.com To: chas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program - Thanks In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990828040752.00957750@mail.skinnyhippo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, chas wrote: > Person-in-trouble posts a question to the list. > > People who know the answer email him/her directly (NOT broadcast to the list). > > Person-in-trouble sorts out his/her problem then posts the solution > back to the list with a subject line that starts "SUMMARY: " followed > by his/her original question. Disadvantages: 1) a person could get 'bad' answers or advice 2) mail archives would only have the solution(s) if the person bothered to post a SUMMARY. I doubt you could actually _force_ someone to post it if he/she didn't want to, so... --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message