Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 13:19:54 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: -questions etiquette Message-ID: <199603252119.NAA06454@Root.COM>
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This is a reminder to all of you on the -questions mailing list that it is never appropriate to answer people's questions with "you're an idiot" or other rude comments (even if you believe them to be true :-)). It has recently come to my attention (again!) that this is happening and it is *not* acceptable. If you're on this list and you are one of these types of people, please do us all a favor and either stop doing this or unsubscribe from this list. Not only does responding in such a stupid way not help the person who is asking for help, but it also gives FreeBSD a bad reputation as being some sort of elitest thing - supported by a bunch of children. The -questions mailing list is primarily a forum for new users that are trying to learn how to use FreeBSD and who have legitimate questions. It *doesn't* matter if their question is answered somewhere deep in the bowels of our FAQ. It's "okay" for people to ask questions here that are covered in the FAQ. The FAQ is intended to augment the information that is available to our users - it is _not_ intended to replace this mailing list. Thank you for your attention and cooperation. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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