From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 31 23:49:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA17301 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from python.shoal.net.au (python.shoal.net.au [203.26.44.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA17282 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:49:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by python.shoal.net.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA15355 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 17:49:09 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 17:49:09 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Perry To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Mailing lists archives In-Reply-To: <199704010005.SAA28909@freeside.fc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > for time-critical system management problems. > > > > > > 5.Answers to questions are to be mailed back to the questioner and are > > > not to be sent to > > > the entire list. The person who originally asked the question has > > > > The trouble with this is that many people need the same questions > > answered. Ive filed off copies of a lot of answers people got to their > > questions, rather than having to ask them myself. Ive also read the > > answer to a question that I didnt have, only to find the answer to one I > > did. > > I'll second this. You will seldom see me ask a question here, but you > should see the pile of files from this list that I've saved on subjects > of interest to me. I'm really learning a lot (though I still seem to > know all too little). It serves as something of an ongoing tutorial. > I like to save copies of all the messages that look I'll be asking them later on. However I've ended up with so many it's a real chore going back through them. :-) The reason I always copy my answers back to the list is so: 1) in case i've got it wrong 2) if i've got it right someone else who wanted to know can see it 3) if i've got it right no-one else will need to answer it and they can concentrate on the curly questions :-) Andrew Perry andrew@shoal.net.au