Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 03:54:26 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: rshea@opendoor.co.nz Cc: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000901035426.D72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200009010159.e811xST04856@deborah.paradise.net.nz> References: <20000831195958.B54301@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; <20000831175623.A15915@mammalia.org> <200009010159.e811xST04856@deborah.paradise.net.nz>
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rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote: > [Snip a lot stuff about the virtues or otherwise of the 'cat' joke] >> >> I personally thought it was kind of funny, and not in bad taste. I'm not saying it wasn't funny. Just that if you were new to something, had a really annoying problem with that you might have tried very hard to solve yourself, and then ask for help, and someone makes a joke of it, you might be offended then. > Probably would have been funnier if the guy who asked the question had > received at least one serious answer. True. And this is (sort of) another problem. Some people will see there is already a response to the question, and might not bother answering, if they skim over -questions mail very quickly. I, at least, often skip to the questions which haven't already had an answer posted, or spend a bit more time answering those questions. Of course, the original poster would do well to read Greg's pages about getting the most out of -questions, in particular the bit about including a subject line. :-) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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