From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 8:35:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7755E14D86 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 08:35:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA25723; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:34:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <199911031634.LAA25723@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: usual response time in mailing list In-Reply-To: from Ariel Burbaickij at "Nov 3, 1999 5: 8: 4 pm" To: Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de (Ariel Burbaickij) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:34:08 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What is the usual response time in this mailing list?I am becoming > somehow uneasy left completly alone :)) with the monster(aka my printer) Response time varies depending on the issue and the skills of the people who are reading the list at the moment. My personal rule of thumb is: wait three days, then look at your prior message. Did you provide all the information you had? Were you polite, or might your earlier message have inadvertently pissed off people? Is it something that there are other resources available to solve? IMHO, most unanswered mail falls in one of these three categories. Now, I haven't seen your earlier reply; I spent the last week in NYC, and deleted my -questions queue unread. I will ask two things: 1) Are you using apsfilter (/usr/ports/print/apsfilter)? This has solved *all* of my printing problems! 2) Have you used the other FreeBSD resources to solve your problem? If you're not sure, check out http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~dispatch/bsd-self-help.html for a FreeBSD problem-solving resource tutorial. ==ml To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message