From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 20:51:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from markl.com (markl.com [209.69.36.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F42237B969 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:51:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from squirrel@hammis.com) Received: from localhost (squirrel@localhost) by markl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA50405 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:51:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from squirrel@hammis.com) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:51:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Damon Hammis X-Sender: squirrel@markl.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just curious (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:36:10 -0700 From: Dave Goodrich To: Damon Hammis Subject: Re: Just curious You have my wholehearted support, but because we use MS Expunge Server, I cannot send a reply to the list, which cannot be found it seems from here. Please forward my agreement. I've always like the newbie response of; This answers questions, shows that there are more answers, and where to find them. DAve. on 7/17/00 1:34 PM, Damon Hammis at squirrel@hammis.com 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 > > _ _ > |__/| .~ ~. > /o=o'`./ .' > {o__, \ { > / . . ) \ > `-` '-' \ } > .( _( )_.' > '---.~_ _ _| > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message