From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 11 7: 3:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D595137B416 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:03:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0BF33C46280; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:03:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:03:03 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Colin Henein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Posting to tech lists Message-ID: <20020111100303.A46229@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020111145805.21555.qmail@mail.orange-carb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020111145805.21555.qmail@mail.orange-carb.org>; from freebsd-questions@juicer.orange-carb.org on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:58:05AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It depends on what you ask, and what sort of info you have. If your question shows that you have done your homework via Google and the FAQ/handbook/etc, you should be OK. A question along the lines of "How do I learn X?" is much better received than "How do I do X?" Most people will happily point you to the appropriate book. On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:58:05AM -0500, Colin Henein wrote: > Is there any special procedure I need to know about before posting a > technical question on a tech list? > > I've tried posting here, but I suspect that the problem is a bit too > involved for a quick answer from this list. > > Will I get lynched if I post a question to freebsd-net? > > Colin > > -- > || when we're little kids maybe we need stories > Colin Henein || to help us go to sleep. but sooner or later we > || need stories to help us wake up... -- Utah Phillips > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message