From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 1 7:33:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603FC37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:33:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3982418B2; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BA818B1; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:57:04 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:57:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Tim Erlin Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: and if -questions doesn't work? In-Reply-To: <20001201152804.14434.qmail@web1101.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > People consistently send questions to this list, and > are consistenly advised to send them to -questions. > I've taken those comments to heart and sent several of > my questions to -questions. But what do I do if they > don't get answered? Well, 90% of the time when I don't get an answer to my questions it's because I asked it without doing much research. These days I mostly try to ask "Where can I find some more info on ....." and I'll get two or three good pointers. After a bit of research, I'm usually ready to come back and ask a more pointed question. Of the other 10% of questions, it's usually because I'm asking about some program that no one really uses, or it's been answered to death on both the list (mail archives!) and in the handbook. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message