Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:23:25 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: atomjelly <atomjelly@sbcglobal.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please help me. Message-ID: <20020827152325.GM21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <000801c24dd7$b777e2f0$6401a8c0@tulsa.ok.atom> References: <000801c24dd7$b777e2f0$6401a8c0@tulsa.ok.atom>
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> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:40:39 -0700
> From: atomjelly <atomjelly@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Please help me.
> To: questions@FreeBSD.org
please, hit enter every approx. 72 chars. it makes your messages
much more readable. thanks.
> Thank you for your time. I have done a make clean install for
> linux-netscape47-navigator and now I don't know what to do to start it
> from the command prompt. Thank you for your time.
i think you should know a few things. freebsd-questions@ is not
a support medium you might be used to. it's not like there's a few
paid support people behind it. there's a few thousands people, some
of them involved in the development of freebsd in a way, but most of
them are just users.
these people have their jobs, hobbies, and when they answer other
people's questions, their doing it in their free time. as a hobby.
these people are pretty busy making their living. when they read
questions@, they often decide which messages they'll read by their
subjects. if you put a "please help me" subject on your message,
it's bound to end up ignored and deleted.
so, next time you post to questions@, use a descriptive subject,
like "don't know how to start netscape".
another thing is, as (probably) no one on the list reads all
messages, typing "i have done a make clean install" says nothing
(although in this one case it's specific enough for unrelated
reasons). i, for example, didn't notice (read: deleted without
reading) your previous thread about installing netscape, and reading
this message doesn't tell me anything about your situation. so
please, *always* put enough context in your messages so that the
people who might want to try to help don't need to do more work than
is actually needed.
all that said, you might want to try typing "netscape &" in an xterm
(i'm not sure if this is correct; it's been a few months since i
last used navigator).
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