From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 20:37: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4E637B405 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:37:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16785D-00075o-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 04:36:59 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 08842110A; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 05:04:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 05:04:24 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A (IMHO) Question Asking Good Guide Message-ID: <20011123050424.A1201@raggedclown.net> References: <24383727@toto.iv> <15357.47999.183897.51637@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15357.47999.183897.51637@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:59:11PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Dominic Marks types: > > On Wednesday 21 November 2001 6:25 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > The preface in the PDF FAQ at > > > http://www.smoothwall.org/download/pdf/docs/0.9.9/doc.faq.pdf seems > > > to be a good guide on how to ask questions in forums such as this > > > one. It might be a place to direct those that don't seem to have a > > > clue as to how support groups such as this one work. > > > > ESR has a good guide as well, somewhere on his home page > > (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/). > > The preface to the document is ESR's guide. > Mmm. The part of ESR's guide on how to phrase and submit questions is pretty good. Much of the way it is written however is highly quetionable IMHO. The continuing use of the third person plural to refer to "hackers" and the notion that hackers are somehow above the norms that apply to others is highly dubious. No flame war folks; just my opinion of ESR is a mixed one. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message