From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 29 08:06:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B6210656B4 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:06:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24ECB8FC13 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:06:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so6047444bwz.43 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 01:06:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0FNNzBcczrg0qhh5ui6yXPKdvI2Wiq34022ymBG4XUk=; b=dB3gnrZ01LbLJ6RjqDHBa+IXc8Ea/xUIAFP3gSWYXPLxIraNLuORUmj1SA/bGwnd3t lWA7sVzE7wrTLfAfpfrEj3yG1PWHlINMMZYQ1X00ac2y6KBtRI4xchwZS1LHyyLYgWvu p1jbwxvsvn3XBI03rpVl4x2i4kEedXLyub9jg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=U6SNZ47QX1/Ur7rZtmJZRXUg0mL0srbnLd4tCZR71dEabQOSIdahSutnSUd8yy+0De rJqCX2dgcKX4w8ZgfGLWdGe0Va3mZn+Z693pTfl3P7MVM8nRA5Ky6aGeToGCKDHugxX9 2e1TNP0nVH/RLtDxHsSt0UnRLhgUNAnEryiqA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.113.132 with SMTP id a4mr2121479bkq.27.1243584381112; Fri, 29 May 2009 01:06:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <200905281030.n4SAUXdA046386@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20090528183801.82b36bbb.freebsd@edvax.de> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793EDE2@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793EDE6@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <4A1EF742.7030606@otenet.gr> From: Chris Rees Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:06:01 +0100 Message-ID: To: Wojciech Puchar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Manolis Kiagias , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is this forum for? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:06:23 -0000 2009/5/28 Wojciech Puchar : > >> These are interoperability questions. Nobody here is asking Windows >> support questions. > > example - "do you know how to shrink windows partition from 250 to 50 gigs > without losing data" > > Yes he wanted this 200GB for FreeBSD, but that question has NOTHING to > FreeBSD. Actually, this looks far more about interoperability, especially since as you said, the 200 GB _is_ _for_ _FreeBSD_ Just because you don't know the answer to a question doesn't mean it's off-topic. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?