From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 2:26:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C0437B53A for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 02:25:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA63653; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:24:48 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Cliff Sarginson" , Subject: RE: Email Etiquette on this list Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:28:51 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20011129110953.A1059@raggedclown.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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