From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 13:47: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2642437BC53 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10092; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:47:03 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id NAA07556; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:47:01 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:47:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Damon Hammis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just curious In-Reply-To: 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 > 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. Easy, most people on this list do want to help, but they're not going to rehash what is already stated in the help files or in the handbook. It's a waste of their time, especially when the person should have read that already. Now if there is a question on the material covered it's a different story. On the same token the help files/handbook/whatever give more information then what one would get on the mailing list. It's also a problem of the medium that what sounds snotty, was not meant in that tone. (God knows I've been a victim of that more then once from both sides....:( Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message