List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as this one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to spam people's inboxes and/or the with thank-you notes that may be archived for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks? Oliver On Friday 24 March 2006 11:47, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 24), Oliver Iberien said: This may be a silly question, but I wanted to make sure: I have a SCSI R/W CD-ROM drive and an IDE DVD read-only drive. There have been times with linux where enabling SCSI emulation made the actual SCSI drive unavailable to k3b. I just want to make sure that adding ATAPICAM won't somehow get in the way of the actual SCSI device. Will it? At worst it may shuffle the device number if the atapi drive gets probed first. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as this one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to spam people's inboxes and/or the with thank-you notes that may be archived for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks? Well, it is considered a good thing to respond with some information or statement indicating if and how something was actually successful in fixing a problem so that that information will get archived. You could include a brief thank you in that message. Anyway, considering how much dross and OT rave-ons that get posted to the list, I can't imagine that anyone would object to a pleasant thank you now and then. jerry Oliver On Friday 24 March 2006 11:47, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 24), Oliver Iberien said: This may be a silly question, but I wanted to make sure: I have a SCSI R/W CD-ROM drive and an IDE DVD read-only drive. There have been times with linux where enabling SCSI emulation made the actual SCSI drive unavailable to k3b. I just want to make sure that adding ATAPICAM won't somehow get in the way of the actual SCSI device. Will it? At worst it may shuffle the device number if the atapi drive gets probed first. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
On Mar 24, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Oliver Iberien wrote: I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as this one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to spam people's inboxes and/or the with thank-you notes that may be archived for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks? System admins expecting thanks? ho-boy! That's a good one. :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:05:35 -0800, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as this one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to spam people's inboxes and/or the with thank-you notes that may be archived for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks? Oliver On Friday 24 March 2006 11:47, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 24), Oliver Iberien said: This may be a silly question, but I wanted to make sure: I have a SCSI R/W CD-ROM drive and an IDE DVD read-only drive. There have been times with linux where enabling SCSI emulation made the actual SCSI drive unavailable to k3b. I just want to make sure that adding ATAPICAM won't somehow get in the way of the actual SCSI device. Will it? At worst it may shuffle the device number if the atapi drive gets probed first. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver: I think it's generally expected that you reply to their help with something like Bummer, that didn't work. or That fixed my problem! Thanks so much!! I don't know, however, whether thank you's should be privately or to the list. I usually say my thanks on the list. I guess I feel that public help should receive public praise. Patrick -- Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
Jerry McAllister wrote: I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as this one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to spam people's inboxes and/or the with thank-you notes that may be archived for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks? Well, it is considered a good thing to respond with some information or statement indicating if and how something was actually successful in fixing a problem so that that information will get archived. You could include a brief thank you in that message. Anyway, considering how much dross and OT rave-ons that get posted to the list, I can't imagine that anyone would object to a pleasant thank you now and then. Thanks for that, Jerry. ;) Kevin Kinsey --- Your own qualities will help prevent your advancement in the world. \/ \/ \/ It's helpful to say thank you!. Sometimes, when you're sitting the livelong day staring at the monitor, you need that. It's particularly an effective remedy for troll attacks and the pain of burns from flame wars. As another posted mentioned, it's often nice, if a problem is a big one, if the resolution of the problem is summed up as well, for the archive's sake. I think that the best reward for many of us is that people use and enjoy FreeBSD, and get some real work done with it, as well. KDK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
From: Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:05:35 -0800, Oliver Iberien
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as
this
one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who
post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to
spam people's inboxes and/or the with thank-you notes that may be
archived
for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks?
Oliver
Oliver:
I think it's generally expected that you reply to their help with
something like Bummer, that didn't work. or That fixed my problem!
Thanks so much!! I don't know, however, whether thank you's should be
privately or to the list. I usually say my thanks on the list. I guess I
feel that public help should receive public praise.
Patrick
Patrick, if a person replies to the help that worked with a (SOLVED)
header addition the solution is archived. It is in a relatively easy
to find form. So it benefits all.
(And a sysadmin who expects thanks is a fool. A sysadmin who does not
appreciate thanks or objects to another getting a thank you message, is
not a fit human being to live. And indeed he is not living a full life.
He's in a half life of grouch, which will lead to an early grave.)
Note that Thank you is about all the pay anybody here gets for offering
solutions. Those two words feed the soul. Accept the food and cherish it.
{^_-} Joanne
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Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
im fond of the next time im in [your town] ill stop off and buy you a beer! :) jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
Oliver Iberien wrote: I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as this one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to spam people's inboxes and/or the with thank-you notes that may be archived for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks? Oliver On Friday 24 March 2006 11:47, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 24), Oliver Iberien said: This may be a silly question, but I wanted to make sure: I have a SCSI R/W CD-ROM drive and an IDE DVD read-only drive. There have been times with linux where enabling SCSI emulation made the actual SCSI drive unavailable to k3b. I just want to make sure that adding ATAPICAM won't somehow get in the way of the actual SCSI device. Will it? At worst it may shuffle the device number if the atapi drive gets probed first. Well, personally I prefer cash. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
Jonathan Horne wrote: im fond of the next time im in [your town] ill stop off and buy you a beer! :) jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is an awesome way to do things. Gotta love beer-funded programming/support :). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
im fond of the next time im in [your town] ill stop off and buy you a beer! It gets the point across too. jerry :) jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:30:02PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: im fond of the next time im in [your town] ill stop off and buy you a beer! :) jonathan That is an awesome way to do things. Gotta love beer-funded programming/support :). -Garrett I'll secnd that! This is about the best out there in List-Land. I've asked my share of questions in the dumb-question dept, but folks usually put up with them with few flames. --Beyond that, thanks to the FBSD lists I've made some outstanding friendships offline. Now if nly the rest of the globe could get along this way:: Wow! :-) gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous
I've posted questions to the linux users' groups for SuSE and Mandriva during my years as a linux desktop user. They are largely composed of posts by my fellow amateur enthusiasts, whose knowledge does not go very deep. This list's base seems to be IT professionals who are happy to help non-competent strangers, and do so clearly and tactfully. (And in some cases, such as with the fellow from obsecurity.com, with a five-minute turnaround.) I find this remarkable, and much appreciate it. Also, the online FreeBSD handbook is a much more useful thing than anything I ever paid to get from SuSE or Mandriva. I'm not getting all the GUI tools I had with linux, but I have better help and better-organized reference materials. Thanks, Oliver On Friday 24 March 2006 18:59, Jerry McAllister wrote: It's helpful to say thank you!. Sometimes, when you're sitting the livelong day staring at the monitor, you need that. It's particularly an effective remedy for troll attacks and the pain of burns from flame wars. As another posted mentioned, it's often nice, if a problem is a big one, if the resolution of the problem is summed up as well, for the archive's sake. I think that the best reward for many of us is that people use and enjoy FreeBSD, and get some real work done with it, as well. KDK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
