From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 26 00:29:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20445 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:29:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20435 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:29:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA02568; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:58:41 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA14786; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:58:28 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980826165827.B14420@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:58:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Malartre Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions References: <199808220002.RAA17015@hub.freebsd.org> <35DE3A1C.EE4B3AFA@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35DE3A1C.EE4B3AFA@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 11:25:16PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 X-Mutt-References: <35DE3A1C.EE4B3AFA@aei.ca> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 21 August 1998 at 23:25:16 -0400, Malartre wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> (650 lines of original text, qouted *twice*, omitted) > > Who will read that message! I did. I had to do so, 14 lines at a time, to get to your comments. You might like to check http://www.lemis.com/email.html for some suggestions, in particular how to trim unneeded quoted text. It doesn't say "don't quote it twice": I don't think that happens often enough to worry about. > I respect your great work but who will read that long boring message Hopefully those who continue to send us inappropriate messages. Sure, it doesn't always work, but at least I can say I tried. > for a so little subject. Your opinion. > I propose you > http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/how-to-ask-en.html > http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/how-to-ask-fr.html > Sure, it's not complete but the model is there: short explanation for a > short subject. It lack of explanation about how to reply and other > mailing-list, also about how to subscribe unsubscribe, but it's kinda ok > I think. I haved great support from a lot of people and the english on > it is near-perfect (wow!) :-) > What do you think? I don't have any objection to others explaining their viewpoints. > I want to know who readed that message from top to bottom. I did, or at least I was forced to display them to find your message. That's how I noticed you quoted everything twice. But you miss the point: I get 600 messages a day. I don't read them all, but with good, descriptive subjects (something I advocate in the message you're complaining about), I don't need to. Of course, people who send a subject like "HELP" are out of luck: I delete them without reading them. But you mention that in your messages. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message