Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:59:04 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000831215904.A19248@mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <20000901035426.D72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:54:26AM %2B0100 References: <20000831195958.B54301@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; <20000831175623.A15915@mammalia.org> <200009010159.e811xST04856@deborah.paradise.net.nz> <20000901035426.D72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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And Ben Smithurst spoke: > rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote: > > > [Snip a lot stuff about the virtues or otherwise of the 'cat' joke] > >> > >> I personally thought it was kind of funny, and not in bad taste. > > I'm not saying it wasn't funny. Just that if you were new to something, > had a really annoying problem with that you might have tried very hard > to solve yourself, and then ask for help, and someone makes a joke of > it, you might be offended then. > > > Probably would have been funnier if the guy who asked the question had > > received at least one serious answer. > > True. And this is (sort of) another problem. Some people will see > there is already a response to the question, and might not bother > answering, if they skim over -questions mail very quickly. I, at least, > often skip to the questions which haven't already had an answer posted, > or spend a bit more time answering those questions. > > Of course, the original poster would do well to read Greg's pages > about getting the most out of -questions, in particular the bit about > including a subject line. :-) > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D I must agree on that last point. I'm getting really sick of "your mail" subject lines. Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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