From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Sep 12 14:11:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901B414D80 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:11:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from tomasa (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/UTIL-INCH-2.0.0) with SMTP id RAA11564; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:11:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199909122111.RAA11564@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Advocacy List" , "Jason C. Wells" Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:12:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Advocacy on FreeBSD-questions Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:46:28 +0000 (GMT), Jason C. Wells wrote: >The -questions mailing list is a powerful tool for FreeBSD advocacy. True, but that post really belonged to the advocacy list. :-) >replies to questions are probably the single most significant venue for >the non-FreeBSD community to learn who, what, and how we (the community) >are. Unfortunately I many times get the same feeling someone new to the camp gets when he wrote "I can see why the BSDs are accused of been snobs". Many of the replies are nothing more than insults to users who have been frustrated already enough trying to look for things. >FreeBSD-bies should conduct themselves as though they are in a customer >service organization. The newer a user the more clueles he/she will be and the most patience one should have with them. Unfortunately what I see is that the clueless the user the more rude people are to them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message