From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 13:34:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from markl.com (markl.com [209.69.36.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7ACA37BC10 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from squirrel@hammis.com) Received: from localhost (squirrel@localhost) by markl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA44479 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:34:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from squirrel@hammis.com) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:34:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Damon Hammis X-Sender: squirrel@markl.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Just curious Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been a user of FreeBSD for sometime now, and have subscribed to this list on different occasions. (Usually when I've come to a roadblock and simply cannot figure out the answer or find a solution in the archives or on the site) One thing that I've noticed is that for the most part people on the list try to help out as much as possible, but at least once or twice a day I see really snotty responses to questions posted on the list. I'm really curious as to why you would say "Read the FAQ" or "It's on the site somewhere" rather than just give the answer if/when you already know it. While I understand that newbie questions or questions without enough information can be annoying at times, a snotty response could turn off potential users of FreeBSD. I would think that the readers on this list, much like myself, would like to see FreeBSD become a well known operating system, and not because of a bunch of snotty people on the mailing list, but rather because it simply is the best OS for the majority of user and networking applications. I expect the flames to come shortly, and I've prepared myself for it, but maybe I'm missing something and will get a better explanation. Long Live FreeBSD!!! --Damon _ _ |__/| .~ ~. /o=o'`./ .' {o__, \ { / . . ) \ `-` '-' \ } .( _( )_.' '---.~_ _ _| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message