Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:20:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: sauri@islandia.is, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get maximum results from FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <199604251120.EAA04741@mistery.mcafee.com> In-Reply-To: <199604250815.KAA15090@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 25, 96 10:15:27 am
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> > Recently I've seen a whole lot of questions of the kind "FreeBSD's > broke, what am I doing wrong?". In many cases, the submitter provided > almost no relevant information, and in at least one case the submitter > complained because not *all* his questions were answered. > > I know we have a FAQ for FreeBSD, but how about a "how to submit a > question to FreeBSD-questions", to be broadcast once a week or so? > Here some starters: > > 1. Nobody gets paid for answering a FreeBSD question. They do it of > > 2. Not everybody who answers FreeBSD questions reads every message, > so please specify a subject. "FreeBSD problem" or "Can't get this > > 3. Please try to format your message so that it is legible. We > > 4. Please don't include unrelated questions in the same message. > > 5. Please specify as much information as possible. This is a > Hear! Hear!
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