Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:23:52 -0400 From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just curious Message-ID: <20000717202352.C4413@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007171627320.44367-100000@markl.com>; from squirrel@hammis.com on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:34:18PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007171627320.44367-100000@markl.com>
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Personally, I just get really annoyed when you see the exact same question
10 million times (for example, on -STABLE, I can't count how many people
have asked about building the kernel after a binutils upgrade). When
information is available in a handbook/FAQ, and has been stated and
restated and restated on the mailing lists, it gets kind of tiring to
answer the same question. Maybe I'm too "elitist", but I expect people to
do at least a little work on their own before calling for help. :)
Eric
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:34:18PM -0400, Damon Hammis wrote:
> I've been a user of FreeBSD for sometime now, and have subscribed to this
> list on different occasions. (Usually when I've come to a roadblock and
> simply cannot figure out the answer or find a solution in the archives or
> on the site) One thing that I've noticed is that for the most part people
> on the list try to help out as much as possible, but at least once or
> twice a day I see really snotty responses to questions posted on the list.
> I'm really curious as to why you would say "Read the FAQ" or "It's on the
> site somewhere" rather than just give the answer if/when you already know
> it. While I understand that newbie questions or questions without enough
> information can be annoying at times, a snotty response could turn off
> potential users of FreeBSD. I would think that the readers on this list,
> much like myself, would like to see FreeBSD become a well known operating
> system, and not because of a bunch of snotty people on the mailing list,
> but rather because it simply is the best OS for the majority of user and
> networking applications.
>
> I expect the flames to come shortly, and I've prepared myself for it, but
> maybe I'm missing something and will get a better explanation.
>
> Long Live FreeBSD!!!
>
> --Damon
>
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