From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 02:54:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA28586 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 02:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mistery.mcafee.com (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com [192.187.128.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA28581 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 02:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jimd@localhost) by mistery.mcafee.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id EAA04741; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:20:13 -0700 From: Jim Dennis Message-Id: <199604251120.EAA04741@mistery.mcafee.com> Subject: Re: How to get maximum results from FreeBSD-questions To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:20:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sauri@islandia.is, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604250815.KAA15090@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 25, 96 10:15:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Recently I've seen a whole lot of questions of the kind "FreeBSD's > broke, what am I doing wrong?". In many cases, the submitter provided > almost no relevant information, and in at least one case the submitter > complained because not *all* his questions were answered. > > I know we have a FAQ for FreeBSD, but how about a "how to submit a > question to FreeBSD-questions", to be broadcast once a week or so? > Here some starters: > > 1. Nobody gets paid for answering a FreeBSD question. They do it of > > 2. Not everybody who answers FreeBSD questions reads every message, > so please specify a subject. "FreeBSD problem" or "Can't get this > > 3. Please try to format your message so that it is legible. We > > 4. Please don't include unrelated questions in the same message. > > 5. Please specify as much information as possible. This is a > Hear! Hear!