From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 23 20: 6:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A9737B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4149A43EDC for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:06:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: from rogers.com ([24.101.253.54]) by fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.05.06 201-253-122-126-106-20020509) with ESMTP id <20021224040627.USIF148587.fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com>; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:06:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3E07DD58.4090201@rogers.com> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:06:48 -0500 From: Mike Jeays User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: List etiquette References: <20021223003837.GC87124@dan.emsphone.com> <20021223054602.GA16438@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.101.253.54] using ID at Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:06:26 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: >On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 08:39:17PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: > > >>On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: >> >> >>>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:38:37 -0600 >>>Subject: Re: List etiquette >>> >>>In the last episode (Dec 22), Mike Jeays said: >>> >>> >>>>Many times I have asked questions on this list, and had helpful >>>>replies from one or more people. My usual practice is to reply to >>>>them directly and thank them, and tell them whether their idea >>>>helped. This avoids cluttering up the list with "thank-you" >>>>messages, but may look as though I haven't bothered to even listen. >>>> >>>>Should one post such replies to the list? >>>> >>>> >>>It's a good idea, so that people reading the thread later have >>>confirmation that the suggestion actually was the correct solution. >>> >>> >>> >Yes, this is important, I think a thread with an affirmative onclusion >should be registered on the list. Someone in the future may not know you >need to wear a penguin suite and sing the Hallelulah Chorus when you >wish to install Port X. > >On a second note, if while waiting for an answer, and you discover it >yourself then post the answer, close the ticket so to speak. > > > >>Agreed - by having a solution confirmation in the archives of this list, >>it makes searching the archives a little easier and more believable. Not >>that I minded the private 'danke' :) >> >> >> >>>>Secondly, an occasional question goes unanswered - perhaps because no >>>>one thought it was interesting enough to reply. Is it acceptable to >>>>post it again after a few days? >>>> >>>> >>>I'd wait a week before reposting, and then try to ask the question a >>>different way, or provide more info. >>> >>> >>> >Yup, unfortunately you will always believe that someone *does* know the >answer to your question, so re-posting a week or so later sometimes >works. If it does not, then you are perhaps asking on the wrong list or >the people who know are all holidaying in the Seychelles on the huge >profits they make from answering questions on FreeBSD :) > > > >>Ocassionally there will be no response because nobody knows the answer >>*or* it's been answered ad nauseum in the archives. Re-posting with an >>update, however, does keep the archives up to date. >> >> >> >Private thank you's are nice.,but I think some people will find it >enough that you have acknowledged the solution proposed works in the >public forum. Of course there is a class of questions for which you will >get a shell and an awk and a perl and a sed and a python and a ruby >answer, often many of all of them. Hee hee ,,, > > > OK, thanks for the advice from all of you. I will follow it in future. A useful discussion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message