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Date:      Sat, 28 Aug 1999 17:26:46 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adopt a newbie program
Message-ID:  <37c81941.999746859@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAIL199908271403.JAA20615@beowulf.utmb.edu>
References:  <00a001bef00d$76fbb100$857e03cb@jdy> <MAIL199908271403.JAA20615@beowulf.utmb.edu>

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On 27 Aug 1999 10:08:35 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:

>Young writes:
>
>IMO, no.  There is a big commitment difference between popping
>off a quick answer to a question for which you happen to know the
>answer, and leaving yourself open to being bugged continually by
>someone for a couple of weeks.  In the best of all worlds, this
>should not make a difference, maybe, but this is not the best of
>all worlds.  Speaking as someone who occasionally posts answers
>here, I would not want to participate in such a program.  I'm
>sorry, but I just do not have the time.

Yes, these are my concerns as well.  I dont always have the time to commit
on a regular basis.  However, I think one thing that might help is to try
and get people to post questions in a more useful format.  Perhaps a web
page interface similar to the GNATS so that they dont endup posting
subjects that say "I doesnt work!" or something else that is too vague.  

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Who is this 'BSD', and why should we free him?"


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