From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 23 09:21:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54C0106564A for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tl32@next.online.no) Received: from mail46.e.nsc.no (mail46.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD928FC1A for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tl32@next.online.no) Received: from [84.202.202.217] (084202202217.customer.alfanett.no [84.202.202.217]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail46.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id m2N9LPHv013228 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:21:25 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <47E6208F.4020104@next.online.no> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:19:11 +0100 From: Tore Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080229) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1206146157.6973.21.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <9CA3D4489328B8E911387EE0@Macintosh.local> <1206160383.6973.42.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <200803220724.05759.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <47E58E08.2040907@next.online.no> <20080322233254.GA5940@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20080322233254.GA5940@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: List replies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:21:27 -0000 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:54:00PM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: >> [snip] >> I request that this misunderstood piece of "etiquette" is revised. If >> someone has the brains to find this list as well as the brains to use >> FreeBSD at all, they also have the brains to come back here to look for >> answers. > > Wrong. Not everybody who posts here is even aware that it is a mailing > list, much less how to read mails sent to the list. I guess the problem is lack of imagination on my part. I am not able to fathom how anyone can pick up and use the address of this list without realizing that it is a mailing list. Nor have I seen this point explained in the many previous discussions on this topic. > There are reasons why this list is explicitly and deliberatly set up so you > do not need to be subscribed to post here. Yes, and those reasons would also be good reasons to ponder whether a mailing list is the right type of forum. Lurkers and newbies should preferably peruse other people's question for a while before they post, and this is hard to do if they are not even aware that this is a mailing list. An HTML forum is probably out of the question, but I wish FreeBSD would at least consider turning the mailing lists into newsgroups - something like news.mozilla.org - unless someone has a better idea. -- Tore