From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 17:30:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158F937B52D for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:30:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eogren@earthlink.net) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip89.cambridge1.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.111.89]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23204; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e6I0Nq505140; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:23:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:23:52 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: Damon Hammis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just curious Message-ID: <20000717202352.C4413@earthlink.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from squirrel@hammis.com on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:34:18PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Personally, I just get really annoyed when you see the exact same question 10 million times (for example, on -STABLE, I can't count how many people have asked about building the kernel after a binutils upgrade). When information is available in a handbook/FAQ, and has been stated and restated and restated on the mailing lists, it gets kind of tiring to answer the same question. Maybe I'm too "elitist", but I expect people to do at least a little work on their own before calling for help. :) Eric On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:34:18PM -0400, Damon Hammis wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message