From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 18:38:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A31014FF5 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:38:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2130.bossig.com [208.26.242.130]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA11063; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:37:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36EB20F0.20CFA037@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:37:36 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Iani Brankov , Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions References: <19990313010218.136B315389@hub.freebsd.org> <36EB039D.C59CCC5D@bulinfo.net> <19990314110410.F429@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Sunday, 14 March 1999 at 2:32:29 +0200, Iani Brankov wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > >> How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. > >> =================================================== > >> > >> Last update 23 February 1998 > >> > >> This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If > >> you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender > >> thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your > >> message: > >> > >> - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. > >> - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. > >> - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. > >> - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. > >> - You sent out the same message more than once. > >> 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. > > > > What about: > > > > - You sent a message in wrong language. # ??? > > I wondered about that. We get the odd message in Japanese, in > particular. The trouble is that these people probably wouldn't read > the "How to". > One thing I have noticed with some of the Cyrillic or Kanji style messages is that most have a mailto or http in English. English just may not be one of their first 4 choices. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message