Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:03:18 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: ****@***.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You might want to know this! Message-ID: <199911301603.IAA18445@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19991130122836.47722.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>From: "Mike" <****@***.com> >Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:28:02 -0600 > I wasn't aware that posting on here was so public. ??!? >If you go to Hotbot and search your screen name any postings you have >posted here at FreeBSD will show up. I'm not at all sure what is meant by "screen name," but that sounds like a term that folks would associate with immature individuals on a BBS. Many of us, in some sense, may well warrant the term "newbies", but there are certainly some of us who never got involved in BBSs... and there are some of us who -- chronologically, at least -- aren't of an age that one would reasonably associate with immaturity. (Just had another birthday recently.... :-) >Just so everybody is aware of that before announcing to the >whole world what kind of system you're running. Get used to it. Over in -questions, the vast bulk of queries will require that you mention significant aspects of the system configuration in order to begin to isolate the nature of whatever problem you're asking about. (Thank the oxymoronish concept of "PC standards" for this.) The "penalties" for failing to include that information range from private inquiries through public humiliation to ignoring your query altogether. (Well, the ordering there may warrant alteration, depending on your perspective at the time.) But the salient matter remains: in order for people to assist you, they need to have a clue as to what is wrong and what is likely to have contributed to it. Hiding the information does no one any good. More critical (to me) though, was that when I saw that there was a message purporting to be >From: "Mike" <****@***.com> in my mailbox, I figured it was Yet Another spam. And had begun the usual hunt for likely perpetrators (and accessories) before I realized it was merely a post from misguided individual. (I report spam (as a form of resource abuse) to the purported custodians of said resources.) So to the extent that you want to be taken seriously, I strongly recommend that you drop the silly "<****@***.com>" non-address. Cheers, david (who's in -newbies because PC hardware is twisted and bizarre) -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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