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[CMS]

I did not see, a email address to sent to for
mail list Netiquette, on the OpenBsd Misc List.

I have been on this last for 3 days,
and I was trying to get a question answered

an most of the message are user just blow off
there English Language skills, of writing on nothing.
and compare it to nothing.

You mention Netiquette, I would think you need to police the list.

Since our intent was to compare your BSD ver, to Apples.
and if the fact it was more positive to purchase 203 copies

Regards-
Richard Nagle
CMS

[Jan-Uwe Finck]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:47:44AM -0500, CMS wrote:
> I did not see, a email address to sent to for
> mail list Netiquette, on the OpenBsd Misc List.

There's none, so you could write to misc@ or here.

> I have been on this last for 3 days,
> and I was trying to get a question answered
>
> an most of the message are user just blow off
> there English Language skills, of writing on nothing.
> and compare it to nothing.

Well, you've seen some flamewars which occured in the last days.
That's not the standard procedure, but it happens.
We don't get paid for giving help, so we can answer the questions
exactly the way we like. It's not necessarily an unfriendly answer,
actually the opposite is standard,
But as we are not paid for doing all this it is very frustrating if
people just pop up on the list and ask questions which would have
taken them 5 minutes to find in the FAQ.
Well, things like that.

> You mention Netiquette, I would think you need to police the list.

The list is free for everyone to write on, and we don't police it, as
we respect the freedom of everybody and have no time for that either.
That would mean a census, which is not wanted here.

> Since our intent was to compare your BSD ver, to Apples.
> and if the fact it was more positive to purchase 203 copies

You're welcome to, but choose whatever fits best for your purpose,
don't let the tone on a mailinglist make the decision.
It's just a mailinglist after all.