Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:28:51 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> To: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Email Etiquette on this list Message-ID: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIAEDOEAAA.patrick@mip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20011129110953.A1059@raggedclown.net>
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> From: Cliff Sarginson > Sent: 29 November 2001 12:10 > > One other thing that can be helpful is if someone has mailed a > message which is in very broken English and it is perhaps not > quite obvious what is being asked. I think it can be worth the > time to briefly paraphrase the question to make sure that you > make it clear what question you think you are answering. This > acknowledges that someone who has made the effort and struggled > to put a question into English is sure he/she has been > understood correctly...bearing in mind that reading a foreign > language is a lot easier than writing in it (believe me I know!). > nice suggestion! Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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