Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 07:09:24 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Project Questions Message-ID: <540D4814.2090205@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <540D37A7.1080605@comcast.net> References: <540D37A7.1080605@comcast.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --bPatac2PvVnxGqsRe9DkwC0DTBoUHlF96 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08/09/2014 05:59, Dave Babb wrote: > I don't know if there are email length limitations, frequency limits, o= r > what the culture is on this mailing list. Formally, there are no limitations on how much or how often you can post here. However you will find you get better results if you ask your questions in a concise and direct way, and keep to one main issue in each posting. In general, the culture here is friendly and supportive, and you will probably get useful answers. freebsd-questions is the generic mailing list and the best place for beginner's questions, or to ask questions where you're not sure what the best forum is. There are quite a few more specialised technical lists and we'll refer you to those when appropriate. > I do not forsee a lot of issues, thus I don;t forsee a lot of emails > that I would generate. I've been in IT since the days of the Eniac and > acoustically coupled modems. While I may be experienced and seasoned...= I > am very junior to FreeBSD....< 1 year as stated earlier. In reality I a= m > looking for assistance validating my plan to make sure it is FreeBSD in= > style and best practice. I am NOT asking for others to do my work for > me...just validate it to ensure I stay within acceptable best practices= > for FreeBSD. Said another way, I am looking for a litmus test for best > practice and protection against misapplication of FreeBSD. So long as what you ask is relevant and the answers are not trivially discoverable by a cursory web search, there should be no problems. > I do the formal walk-through with the City tomorrow (Monday the > 8th)...and I can then make the design and implementation plans on my en= d > before I litmus check it with this list. >=20 > I would expect at some time to generate a chart, be that a DIA chart, o= r > some other charting software (feel free to recommend one), for drawing > up the new network architecture based upon my walk-through tomorrow. Software for drawing diagrams is something that has come up before -- it's not quite a perennial favourite, but certainly something that will get you a number of suggested alternatives. Unfortunately it seems there is no really top class free and open alternative to Visio. > More Q's: Are attachments allowed or not? PDF? or Native format? Attachments are limited to a small number of textual types -- essentially diffs or other ascii text. You're best off not attaching anything. If you can, ask your question entirely in the body of your e-mail. If you need to show people diagrams or voluminous program output, then it's best to put that up on the web somewhere and post a link. Pastebin sites are popular for that. > Would someone in this mailing list please let me know what the culture > is and proper usage of this list is, and what is expected of me when I > generate an email to this list? Stay polite, do your own homework and try and keep relevant. That's pretty much it. Although if you do have any interesting anecdotes from back in the Eniac days, you'll probably find a willing audience here (within reason -- there's the freebsd-chat@ list which is really the intended venue for that sort of thing.) Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk --bPatac2PvVnxGqsRe9DkwC0DTBoUHlF96 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJUDUghXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATqDUQAJVTYrEqov5Mapl1P1B/YR5U Sy1v9wOz0hkrjApQs956Om6/21GVaq2PJ4MQCVnU5MCxGN/GWbvoEbEAHFtT8Dw9 eME6gWMQb8YRth0fhfCx1IRsa4wwCOQ6MMKUFycfoj5utRHxOtthF7EymoaNwuYK ml9Soeg3KDVSx9eJxljXZwMpW4jmMpD2dBKWNZ9fQGOEkbc+pbWbP2PKvzV9AkZY jSuplWsviiy0nkD9cc0RhnAUpbxSr6J38svI1HcKckSi7vIU0x+8P/4FFXX2qiYe nOYfby+pQh3wZOWex49w/MZvUFmbT5gvmqtEFPuEEVcjqA1nzBB7XOKxWmY//Ign 1lHcgw55O2Qq85AF1TmL1hHi1etF1JETNWw+dMpE3zDjXegn6KYIZYbzZB8jfzn8 tRvAnuLzB2fR4NL6HxARfcTt8imiUBLSRc8GTnbvIpw7NOl3VuK18RxrWM88LMRK tkrOLiaOzKP9b+hUeNelk2kJrqnWFWRyd/K/Xzaaa3tdDAB6sf8VJuqYdOo2neAb vYEZ2q/1GUAH5c+uwDN7c5y09pPjM5HGhnbKtcMYaKAe+ksm82P5hMEjP1e1Nnyq r3DgqK8oLMeWTWQCPtkOoL7XsuTk1szJWCr5IhDUnBtV87QGcXGVL3/fyb7Tf6q1 DEPZB99x3mKwhddGpvbt =W334 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bPatac2PvVnxGqsRe9DkwC0DTBoUHlF96--
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