From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 28 10:16:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0061C14C17 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:16:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA27914 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:13:41 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 17:26:46 GMT Message-ID: <37c81941.999746859@mail.sentex.net> References: <00a001bef00d$76fbb100$857e03cb@jdy> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Aug 1999 10:08:35 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Young writes: > >IMO, no. There is a big commitment difference between popping >off a quick answer to a question for which you happen to know the >answer, and leaving yourself open to being bugged continually by >someone for a couple of weeks. In the best of all worlds, this >should not make a difference, maybe, but this is not the best of >all worlds. Speaking as someone who occasionally posts answers >here, I would not want to participate in such a program. I'm >sorry, but I just do not have the time. Yes, these are my concerns as well. I dont always have the time to commit on a regular basis. However, I think one thing that might help is to try and get people to post questions in a more useful format. Perhaps a web page interface similar to the GNATS so that they dont endup posting subjects that say "I doesnt work!" or something else that is too vague. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Who is this 'BSD', and why should we free him?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message