From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 21:59: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C3737B43C for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by manatee.mammalia.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D8C1A11CFEE; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:59:04 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000831215904.A19248@mammalia.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000901035426.D72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:54:26AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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