From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 30 03:23:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA06732 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 03:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from witch.xtra.co.nz (witch.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA06671 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 03:21:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by witch.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA23799; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:20:19 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808301020.WAA23799@witch.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: "Jukka Similä" Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:20:29 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: FreeBSD-Questions Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <35E92316.C5702532@info1.info.tampere.fi> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from Quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA06712 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 30 Aug 98, at 13:01, 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. Be patient. Try reposting the question. Also, check the topic under which you post. Sometimes that has a bearing on how quickly you get an answer. FWIW: I had the same problem with my IDE card. It took over a week. And remember: the person that knows the answer may not be reading the list when you post. Post again. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message