On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Alejandro Imass <a...@p2ee.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Tom Worster <f...@thefsb.org> wrote: >> On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, "Jerry McAllister" <jerr...@msu.edu> wrote: >> >>>Lots of people see FreeBSD and the web site and the mascott, etc for >>>the first time probably each day. Some of them will have the same >>>mistaken idea since the misunderstanding of it is implanted in people's >>>heads from an early age. Although you may get tired of hearing that >>>same old argument again and again, I do, it does not automatically make a >>>person a troll if they ask the question. >> >> Hmm. >> >> It is inconsiderate and lazy to ask someone else to answer a question >> without making any effort to answer it yourself first. The misdeed is >> multiplied when the culprit asks hundreds of people in a discussion group >> such as this. That's why it is often considered a violation of etiquette. >> The fact that lmgtfy.com and 'RTFM' are both well know suggests that this >> is not a fringe opinion. >> >> >>>The intelligent thing is to give a reasonable answer and point the person >>>to some web pages where they can become informed and then ignore it. >> >> I would describe that as the indulgent thing, not the intelligent thing. >> >> > > Thanks Tom, I was beginning to think no one else cared about such > netiquette, and I just opted to let it go. Nevertheless, now that you > brought this up, I would like to point a couple of more things out to > Jerry: > > The _intelligent_ thing to do is to actually read before blabbering > here about some religious crap. > > When the OP signed up to this list he must have read this: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL > > Where things like the following are very clearly stated: > > When in doubt about what list to post a question to, see How to get > best results from the FreeBSD-questions mailing list. > Which points to this: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/ > > Before posting to any list, please learn about how to best use the > mailing lists, such as how to help avoid frequently-repeated > discussions, by reading the Mailing List Frequently Asked Questions > (FAQ) document. > Which points to this: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/ > > And in almost all these places there are links to the netiquette, > recommendations on how to search before you post and tons of > information on how to correctly interact with these mailing lists. > > Ignorantia legis neminem excusat >
Yes, yes, yes . . . but back to the issue at hand; cartoons with red faces and two horns, carrying sharp, pointy things indicate the evil that must be . . . . ummm . . . I don't know. I'm probably going to hell just for having thoughts about Satan (or whatever). Like I said, I don't know ;-) Ok . . . "now" I'm done. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
