From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 07:52:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D36616A4CF for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:52:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outside.taborandtashell.net (sub18-33.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.18.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6EF43D55 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:51:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net) Received: (qmail 49994 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2005 23:51:50 -0800 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.9?) (tkelly@192.168.0.9) by 192.168.0.2 with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 21 Jan 2005 23:51:50 -0800 Message-ID: <41F20629.8080307@taborandtashell.net> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:52:09 -0800 From: Tabor Kelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey References: <20050122052751.68119.qmail@web53906.mail.yahoo.com> <20050122071654.GD85706@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050122071654.GD85706@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: hindrich@worldchat.com cc: stheg olloydson cc: Ted Mittelstaedt cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Way to Partition. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:52:00 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 22:14:13 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >>On Friday, January 21, 2005 9:28 PM, stheg olloydson wrote: >>>BTW, having "GNU/Linux -> Freedom" in your sig file when posting to a >>>*BSD list is a bit of a _faux pas_, wouldn't you agree? >> >>Probably not as much as a faux pas as posting the same message TWICE, >>stheg, > None of the above help improve the standard of the channel. > > A few weeks back we discussed closing down the FreeBSD-newbies mailing > list, because just about everything on it is a technical questions. > One of the biggest objections was "but the people on -questions are so > unfriendly". > > Can we try to change that? Indeed. My first post to this email list (since I have been back from a 3 year hiatus) was a question about the infamous portsdb -uU/portupgrade -uU segfault. My reward for coming back to this list was an angry email from Don Novello (spam@black-star.net). Also, if you are going to tell people that they posted duplicate messages, do you need to send that to the whole email list? If you send it to the whole list, you are wasting just as much bandwidth as the guy who accidentally sent his message twice, except you are doing it on purpose. -- Tabor Kelly tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net http://tabor.taborandtashell.net