From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 24 20:29:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8225316A400 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:29:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1300B43D45 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:29:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend2.internal (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D90CD41DD9 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:29:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.212]) by frontend2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:28:51 -0500 Received: by web3.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 5485A147A; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:28:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1143232131.31331.257470137@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: zKwnBlyzlyGm1Hr7Fmg5iNXq9Hb4s4vTAw2X9+V5KpnY 1143232131 From: "Patrick Bowen" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 5022 (F2.72; T1.15; A1.62; B3.04; Q3.03) References: <200603241110.11254.oliver-forward@charter.net> <20060324194710.GL42429@dan.emsphone.com> <200603241205.35897.oliver-forward@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <200603241205.35897.oliver-forward@charter.net> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:28:51 -0600 Subject: Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:29:03 -0000 On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:05:35 -0800, "Oliver Iberien" said: > I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as > this > one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who > post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to > spam people's inboxes and/or the with thank-you notes that may be > archived > for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks? > > Oliver > > > On Friday 24 March 2006 11:47, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Mar 24), Oliver Iberien said: > > > This may be a silly question, but I wanted to make sure: > > > > > > I have a SCSI R/W CD-ROM drive and an IDE DVD read-only drive. There > > > have been times with linux where enabling SCSI emulation made the > > > actual SCSI drive unavailable to k3b. I just want to make sure that > > > adding ATAPICAM won't somehow get in the way of the actual SCSI > > > device. Will it? > > > > At worst it may shuffle the device number if the atapi drive gets > > probed first. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Oliver: I think it's generally expected that you reply to their help with something like "Bummer, that didn't work." or "That fixed my problem! Thanks so much!!" I don't know, however, whether "thank you"'s should be privately or to the list. I usually say my thanks on the list. I guess I feel that public help should receive public praise. Patrick -- Patrick Bowen pbowen@fastmail.fm