Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:19:11 +0100 From: Tore Lund <tl32@next.online.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List replies Message-ID: <47E6208F.4020104@next.online.no> In-Reply-To: <20080322233254.GA5940@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <1206146157.6973.21.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <9CA3D4489328B8E911387EE0@Macintosh.local> <1206160383.6973.42.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <200803220724.05759.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <47E58E08.2040907@next.online.no> <20080322233254.GA5940@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:54:00PM +0100, Tore Lund wrote:
>> [snip]
>> I request that this misunderstood piece of "etiquette" is revised. If
>> someone has the brains to find this list as well as the brains to use
>> FreeBSD at all, they also have the brains to come back here to look for
>> answers.
>
> Wrong. Not everybody who posts here is even aware that it is a mailing
> list, much less how to read mails sent to the list.
I guess the problem is lack of imagination on my part. I am not able to
fathom how anyone can pick up and use the address of this list without
realizing that it is a mailing list. Nor have I seen this point
explained in the many previous discussions on this topic.
> There are reasons why this list is explicitly and deliberatly set up so you
> do not need to be subscribed to post here.
Yes, and those reasons would also be good reasons to ponder whether a
mailing list is the right type of forum. Lurkers and newbies should
preferably peruse other people's question for a while before they post,
and this is hard to do if they are not even aware that this is a mailing
list.
An HTML forum is probably out of the question, but I wish FreeBSD would
at least consider turning the mailing lists into newsgroups - something
like news.mozilla.org - unless someone has a better idea.
--
Tore
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