From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 20:48: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from firefly.prairienet.org (firefly.prairienet.org [192.17.3.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E8437B4D7 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:48:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sherman.spotnet.org (slip-72.prairienet.org [192.17.3.92]) by firefly.prairienet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28603 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:47:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:47:51 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington X-Sender: dtalk@sherman.spotnet.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: free b.s.d. and networks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- George Reid wrote: >On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 Trikers3@aol.com wrote: > >> Dear sirs. >> I need to know the answers to some questions for a presentation I must do >> on several operating systems. > >I'm sorry if I've been smoking too much crack, but I understood the >general idea of a presentation was to relay your findings on a matter >you've done some research on. That doesn't include getting somebody else >to write it for you. > >Try reading the website - www.freebsd.org [treading lightly] Ok, not to contest your point, but ... it occurs to me, having seen several innocent inquisitors bitten this way, that many people may assume that "questions@freebsd.org" leads to a vendor's help desk. Given that assumption, and not knowing anything about FreeBSD, or about open source software and the nature of its community, let alone the fact that email to that address was being broadcast to that community, an unsuspecting newcomer might come away from an encounter like this with an awfully sour impression of FreeBSD. Just my thoughts and $.02. -d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBOiM4/L1ZYOtSwT+tAQFZ4Af9Em2cEL40sCo+rCYEPJhYpWcZFjiVZ2Uw yJEXnyg2PVxfN33kuHgawr2KFKwQJJhtY+ga0XTqm8xKGXRq92TTyCu7SliiUm2U B7yJh9UtalTTL+yLKB2bWt6UVWy+BPrr70SYy7+Gpv+yK2FuDYO76Fxy5dfU1zaI 6udm7uaIz4HmwgeEcm2yKylVk4u09ZSVL6CrqxC/PpYPeqFFZEaWWJY1HKQGew2e dDmUHFdVEAOlovkGD6X571XnenU4Ih5VGyqfB2M2tEHYHs4eYe35JJuZNEpjReTm 9bQ+lFwHIjEUsB5lDex5z0lvFV4FNxvDDcbwoqD78sUMqJaXq/rpxA== =lJtB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message