如何在 FreeBSD-questions mailing list 上得到正解

Greg Lehey

$FreeBSD: head/zh_TW.Big5/articles/freebsd-questions/article.xml 39632 2012-10-01 11:56:00Z gabor $

$FreeBSD: head/zh_TW.Big5/articles/freebsd-questions/article.xml 39632 2012-10-01 11:56:00Z gabor $

法律聲明

本文主要是給準備寫信到 FreeBSD-questions mailing list 的人提供一些參考。 我們會給你一些發問的技巧與建議,以便讓你的答案得到更有用的答覆。

本文會定期發到 FreeBSD-questions mailing list 上。


內容目錄
1. 簡介
2. How to subscribe to FreeBSD-questions
3. How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions
4. Should I ask -questions or -hackers?
5. Before submitting a question
6. How to submit a question
7. How to follow up to a question
8. How to answer a question

1. 簡介

FreeBSD-questions is a mailing list maintained by the FreeBSD project to help people who have questions about the normal use of FreeBSD. Another group, FreeBSD-hackers, discusses more advanced questions such as future development work.

注: The term “hacker” has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is “cracker”, but the popular press has not found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. For a longer description of hackers, see Eric Raymond's How To Become A Hacker

This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the “newcomers”), and also those who answer the questions (the “hackers”).

Inevitably there is some friction, which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accuse the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accuse the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there is an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration.

In this document, I would like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we will look at how to answer one.

本文及其他文件,可由此下載:ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/

若有 FreeBSD 方面疑問,請先閱讀 FreeBSD 相關文件,如不能解決的話,再洽詢 <questions@FreeBSD.org>。
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