Date: 31 Oct 2001 12:21:37 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This list works poorly at best -- Was: Censorship... Message-ID: <7zg07zef1q.07z@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011031124614.H3717@dantooine.vindaloo.com> References: <51430008@toto.iv> <15328.7821.910344.11674@guru.mired.org> <20011031083135.B27498@xor.obsecurity.org> <15328.10690.181941.964290@guru.mired.org> <20011031124614.H3717@dantooine.vindaloo.com>
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Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> writes: > In my typical experience I search the mailing list archives > and get no response since the search engine sucks. I've been happy with http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search, searching the "*freebsd*" forums. Never tried another. > Don't even read posts with a subject line of ``Help'' or ``Question''. Since many people will answer such posts, it would probably be more effective to ask the originator to do better, CC'ing to the list to so everyone needn't bother to do it too. It's debatable whether that reply should contain an answer. I'll admit that I seldom read them or reply. > If you get a response to your question but that response was not posted to > the list bounce or forward it back. It may save the next guy who has the > same problem a couple of steps. Bad advice. People should assume that a private reply was private because the replier wanted it to be private. Forwarding it on to a public forum is a nasty violation of privacy. I'm sure there are exceptions and you could re-post generic info, etc, I suppose, but you shouldn't try to read the replier's mind about it and at a minimum you should remove any identifying info. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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