Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread Tony
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin . Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:41 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ? there seems to be some unwritten rule that users (not to be confused with developers) are not allowed to ask

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 19/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to 15 seconds or less. Nonsense. Just because your MS Outlook does not support or is not configured to support bottom-posting, doesn't mean that you should

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread Diana Eichert
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, STeve Andre' wrote: SNIP You can determine to nearly 100% the support of something by looking at the suported hardware pages. I'm guessing you are using some i386 machine, and there is a *great deal* of information on the cards and devices supported. Looking there has

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:06:11 +0100 Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to 15 seconds or less. Nonsense. Just because your MS Outlook does

RE: Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread tony
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:06:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to 15 seconds or less. Nonsense. Just because your MS Outlook does not support or is not configured

RE: Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread tony
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:07:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:06:11 +0100 Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to 15 seconds or less.

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread Benjamin Collins
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:07:47AM -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:06:11 +0100 Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread Marco Peereboom
blah blah blah Just stop it with this top post horseshit. Nobody cares, for fuck's sake. On Oct 19, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Benjamin Collins wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:07:47AM -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:06:11 +0100 Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-18 Thread OpenBSD Admin
I'm curious, there seems to be some unwritten rule that users (not to be confused with developers) are not allowed to ask whether certain things are supported in OpenBSD or when these items are likely to be available, in particular this seems to be on the misc@ mailing list. The openbsd site

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-18 Thread STeve Andre'
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:32, OpenBSD Admin wrote: I'm curious, there seems to be some unwritten rule that users (not to be confused with developers) are not allowed to ask whether certain things are supported in OpenBSD or when these items are likely to be available, in particular

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-18 Thread Kevin .
there seems to be some unwritten rule that users (not to be confused with developers) are not allowed to ask whether certain things are supported in OpenBSD or when these items are likely to be available, Nope--not at all. Stupid questions that show a lack of research and/or lack of supporting

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-18 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:56:32PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:32, OpenBSD Admin wrote: So where does one post questions *after* having read the FAQ etc in misc@, ports@, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] tho' posting questions that could be answered by the self with

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-18 Thread Lars Hansson
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:32:47 +1000 OpenBSD Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there seems to be some unwritten rule that users (not to be confused with developers) are not allowed to ask whether certain things are supported in OpenBSD or when these items are likely to be available, in