Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:43:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= <lmkjuksi@info1.info.tampere.fi>, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tips@egroups.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD-Questions Message-ID: <19980831084304.F606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C35E92316=2EC5702532=40info1=2Einfo=2Etampere=2Efi=3E?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3B_from_Jukka_Simil=E4_on_Sun=2C_Aug_30=2C_1998_at_01:01?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?:58PM_%2B0300?= References: <35E92316.C5702532@info1.info.tampere.fi>
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On Sunday, 30 August 1998 at 13:01:58 +0300, Jukka Similä wrote: > Has anyone noticed that asking a question in -questions might be very > frustrating; I have now asked several times about my cd-rom problem, and > I haven't received a single answer - Not even "look at the mailing list > archives" one. I have checked out bug-reports, and obviously my problem > is a closed case, that just doesn't help me a bit: I have done just what > reads in mail archives - I still got the same problem. > > But I really am happy we got this marvellous support for FreeBSD, if one > has a problem, well just ask in -questions and voila! One maybe gets an > answer, maybe not, but who cares, everything is fine as long as we can > ASK the questions, nobody really wants to get any answers. And besides, > I like nothing better than talking to my computer, expecting no answer. *sigh* Yes, it's very possible not to get an answer. I wonder how many of these questions do go unanswered. That's one of the reasons why I wrote http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. Rick Hamell mentioned one reason: people who answer -questions do it in their spare time. I haven't seen anything from Doug White for a while, and I've been pretty busy too, so it looks as if you've chosen a bad time. Post your message again, and I'll reply (but it might be "beats me"). > And if Sue ever again want's to point me to -questions I think I'll skip > it instantly, it's much faster to read every single manual page through > there is to read than ask anything in -questions. Definitely. If you can find an answer in the man pages, don't bug -questions. 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-newbies" in the body of the message
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