From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 21: 7:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B566D37B43E for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13UgyJ-0008kS-00; Fri, 01 Sep 2000 03:54:27 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA68814; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 03:54:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 03:54:26 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: rshea@opendoor.co.nz Cc: R Joseph Wright , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000901035426.D72445@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000831195958.B54301@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; <20000831175623.A15915@mammalia.org> <200009010159.e811xST04856@deborah.paradise.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009010159.e811xST04856@deborah.paradise.net.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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