From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 8 10:41:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00225 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 10:41:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from carp.gbr.epa.gov (carp.gbr.epa.gov [204.46.159.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00146 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 10:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjenkins@carp.gbr.epa.gov) Received: (from mjenkins@localhost) by carp.gbr.epa.gov (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01271; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 12:41:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mjenkins) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 12:41:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Jenkins Message-Id: <199806081741.MAA01271@carp.gbr.epa.gov> To: sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: "The Complete FreeBSD", first edition: errata and addenda Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:36:03 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sean Harding > > On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Yes, I think so. Even with this list, many people send in questions > > saying "I didn't find anything about this in \"The Complete > > FreeBSD\"". The URL is already in the book, and it doesn't help much. > > And if you only read the subject line either way, what difference does it > make? I don't see why posting the whole thing would cause anyone more > problems than just posting a URL unless they either are compelled to read > every word of every message they get or they are printing out all of their > e-mail... > > Sean Consider the freebsd-questions-digest mailing list which bundles multiple mail messages into a single mail digest. Having large messages with no meaningful content only increases the noise/signal ratio in the digest. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message