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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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Subject: Re: How to particpate in this Forum
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rajesh srivastava writes:
> Hi!
>
> Can I participate in this forum i.e. provide my views on questions asked.

Sure!  Go ahead, if you have something to say.  In my "How to get best
results" regular posting, I say:

+ IV: How to answer a question
+ ============================
+ 
+ Before you answer a question to FreeBSD-questions, consider:
+ 
+ 1.  A lot of the points on submitting questions also apply to
+     answering questions.  Read them.
+ 
+ 2.  Has somebody already answered the question?  The easiest way to
+     check this is to sort your incoming mail by subject: then
+     (hopefully) you'll see the question followed by any answers, all
+     together.
+ 
+     If somebody has already answered it, it doesn't automatically mean
+     that you shouldn't send another answer.  But it makes sense to
+     read all the other answers first.
+ 
+ 3.  Do you have something to contribute beyond what has already been
+     said?  In general, "Yeah, me too" answers don't help much,
+     although there are exceptions, like when somebody is describing a
+     problem he's having, and he doesn't know whether it's his fault or
+     whether there's something wrong with the hardware or software.  If
+     you do send a "me too" answer, you should also include any further
+     relevant information.
+ 
+ 4.  Are you sure your answer is correct?  If not, wait a day or so.
+     If nobody else comes up with a better answer, you can still reply
+     and say, for example, "I don't know if this is correct, but since
+     nobody else has replied, why don't you try replacing your ATAPI
+     CD-ROM with a frog?".
+ 
+ 5.  Don't do a group reply; lots of people send messages with hundreds
+     of CCs.  Unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, just reply
+     to the person and copy FreeBSD-questions.
+ 
+ 6.  Trim the original message to the minimum, and use some technique
+     to identify which text came from the original message, and which
+     text you add.  I personally find that prepending "> " to the
+     original message works best.  Leaving white space after the ">"
+     and leave empty lines between your text and the original text both
+     make the result more readable.
+ 
+     Most mailers change the subject line on a reply by prepending a
+     text such as "Re: ".  If your mailer doesn't do it automatically,
+     you should do it manually.
+ 
+     If the submitter didn't abide by format conventions (lines too
+     long, inappropriate subject line), *please* fix it.  In the case
+     of an incorrect subject line (such as "HELP!!??"), change the
+     subject line to (say) "Re: Difficulties with sync PPP (was:
+     HELP!!??)".  That way other people trying to follow the thread
+     will have less difficulty following it.
+ 
+     In such cases, it's appropriate to say what you did and why you
+     did it, but try not to be rude.  If you find you can't answer
+     without being rude, don't answer.
+ 
+     If you just want to reply to a message because of its bad format,
+     just reply to the submitter, not to the list.  You can just send
+     him this message in reply, if you like.

Bear in mind that I am not the keeper of -questions.  Others may have
other opinions, and as long as they're polite, they're welcome.

Greg