From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 08:18:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA28462 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:18:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA28454 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:18:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA13682; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:18:26 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.7.3/8.6.5) with SMTP id IAA02715; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:18:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199512291618.IAA02715@corbin.Root.COM> To: John Dyson cc: craigs@venus.os.com (Craig Shrimpton), msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, deasey@netpath.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Dec 95 06:50:28 PST." <199512291450.GAA22857@freefall.freebsd.org> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:18:19 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >(Hope that this clarifies the situation.) Also, I sure wish that we >would learn to be more tolerant of apparently innocent questions being >asked. I'd like to second this notion. The -questions mailing list has become very hostile recently to new users, and this is exactly what *should not* happen. The -questions mailing list was designed and created specifically for new users who have "new user" questions. If you are on this list and have a low threshold for these types of questions, please do all of us (and most importantly our new users) a favor and either unsubscribe or answer the questions politely and with high "new user" tolerance. We have many other mailing lists which are not new-user oriented (such as -hackers, -current, -bugs, etc) where your energy can be much better spent. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project