Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:57:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: ericr@clue.com (ericr) Cc: shadowalker@rmci.net (Jason Sheets), freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About introducing newbies to FreeBSD Message-ID: <200011012257.PAA05886@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200011012024.eA1KOJf19302@mutant.clue.com> from "ericr" at Nov 01, 2000 01:24:19 PM
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> : It is an efficient way for everyone to ask questions and quickly get them > : answered. > > Uh, there's freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, there's the newsgroup(s) > comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.*, there's the bug database (ok, you can't ask > questions of it, but you can search for similar problems and see if > you've found a bug), and probably several other pretty official ways > to ask questions. the first two have usually taken care of my issues, > although not always the way I might have liked. ;-) You missed the part where he said "and quickly get them answered". The response "RTFM" or "FAQ #28" isn't an answer. The most silly thing I've seen of this nature is a "FAQ #1" answer to a "Hi, I've been told to read FAQ #28; where can I find the FAQ?" question. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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