From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 7 16:18:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3855837BCB4 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:18:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from ip176.r7.d.bel.nwlink.com (ip176.r7.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.173.176]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA10096; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:18:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:13:00 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: Will Andrews Cc: FreeBSD mailing list , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd in current....no config files in /etc/ssh In-Reply-To: <20000307171647.B64425@shadow.blackdawn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 12:02:38PM +0000, FreeBSD mailing list wrote: > > You know people, it's quite sad that those with knowledge simply refuse > > to answer simple questions without "RTFM" attitudes and indirect (and > > more frequently direct) insults to intelligence and sensibilities. > > When you have more experience helping people on a frequent basis, > perhaps you will revise this statement. Try helping folks out every day > on IRC for 2 or 3 years and tell me what you think THEN. Alternative: > answer every question asked on freebsd-questions for same period. > > You'll see the point once you accomplish this. > > > There is absolutely no reason why you can't submit the help, with > > suggestion toward ones perception of "the Right Way" to do it, > > rather than beat the issue to death with superior posturing. > > There is absolutely no reason why people should lift a finger to help > somebody else when said question/inquiry has been documented somewhere > on the web or in the manpages, or someplace else. You're right. However, there is no reason to lift a finger to not help someone either. If you don't want to help, simply don't. You save everyone energy. Being a jerk isn't going to keep people from posting elementary questions, that's a fact. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message