From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 2 8:25:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5332137BB31 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 08:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: from cx443070a ([24.4.93.90]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000502152519.WOGF13130.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@cx443070a>; Tue, 2 May 2000 08:25:19 -0700 Message-ID: <002801bfb44a$9744a0a0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Alexander Langer" , "Travis Cole" Cc: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , References: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <20000501221654.A20589@wcug.wwu.edu> <000f01bfb3f9$5db2f0e0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> <20000502000316.A24887@wcug.wwu.edu> <20000502094046.B2489@cichlids.cichlids.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 08:25:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4132.1800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4132.1800 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You are right. @-abuse is common on Unix-channels. > That has something to do with the broken social life of these guys. I think it has more to do with a massive influx of morons who ask the same questions over and over. I too ask questions, but I quickly discovered that when I asked them in #freebsd, I often got an answer followed by a kick ban. Soon I learned that there was another channel, #freebsdhelp, where I could go for my questions. Then I learned of the mailing list, with questions@freebsd.org and so on. Then the massive web pages on FreeBSD topics and questions. www.defcon1.org, www.freebsd-howto.com, www.freebsd.org/handbook ! The content is huge. All of these simple questions are answered. One can find out the information they are seeking without annoying the rest of the BSD population. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message