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?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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