On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:24, you wrote: >The old saying goes, "the only stupid question is the one that you >don't ask." However, it should be modified for OpenBSD as, "the only >stupid question is the one you don't research before you ask." It's a >tough crowd but in time you start to understand why.
You may even come to not only understand it, but even appreciate it. I've asked questions before that could have been answered with enough research. Now i don't. Instead i go to greater effort to find an answer on my own. And if i still feel the need to ask, often in the process of composing a message and going through and making sure i've got all the details of my question correct, i stumble across something i missed and end up finding the solution and not needing to ask at all. As a result, these days i rarely ask anything, because there is simply no need. OpenBSD is so well documented and there is so much information already in the mailing list archive that needing to ask is very rare. OpenBSD and the -misc community has taught me how to do my own research. Knowing how to find answers to my future questions is far more valuable in the long run than merely being handed the answers when i ask. Thank you, both to the developers, and to the community on this mailing list. Now if only i could learn to write in the concise, information-dense style that Theo uses... the above could probably be condensed to 2 or 3 lines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA
