From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Nov 1 14:57:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583E537B4CF for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:57:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA04228; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 15:55:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAu1a4hi; Wed Nov 1 15:55:39 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05886; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 15:57:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011012257.PAA05886@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: About introducing newbies to FreeBSD To: ericr@clue.com (ericr) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:57:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: shadowalker@rmci.net (Jason Sheets), freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200011012024.eA1KOJf19302@mutant.clue.com> from "ericr" at Nov 01, 2000 01:24:19 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : It is an efficient way for everyone to ask questions and quickly get them > : answered. > > Uh, there's freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, there's the newsgroup(s) > comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.*, there's the bug database (ok, you can't ask > questions of it, but you can search for similar problems and see if > you've found a bug), and probably several other pretty official ways > to ask questions. the first two have usually taken care of my issues, > although not always the way I might have liked. ;-) You missed the part where he said "and quickly get them answered". The response "RTFM" or "FAQ #28" isn't an answer. The most silly thing I've seen of this nature is a "FAQ #1" answer to a "Hi, I've been told to read FAQ #28; where can I find the FAQ?" question. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message