From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HJwyE-0004Bs-Ov for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:17:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1LJDqUu001007; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:13:52 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1LJ7l2I026171 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:07:47 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F453868F for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:07:44 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:07:39 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD? Message-ID: <20070221190739.3344db28@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200702211903.20550.uwix@iway.na> References: <8978E31831121041B2E97EBC0BF850331FFD85@EXVS01.hostedexchange.com> <200702211517.45551.prlewis@letterboxes.org> <20070221160338.7bf65e3a@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200702211903.20550.uwix@iway.na> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2cvs58 (GTK+ 2.10.9; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_7iNCWO1+cx563cfwOCHp2tg; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: a6999530-eca4-463c-ad43-88355e7c0ad0 X-Archives-Hash: 97d05a1fe3518a7097e2f9d8f721e6cf --Sig_7iNCWO1+cx563cfwOCHp2tg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:03:20 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they > > significantly outnumber the good. Most questions provide too little > > information to get a really useful answer. GIGO applies here as much > > as anywhere else. =20 >=20 > While I agree with you in general, I still think that most noise on > most mailing lists is due to bad answers, not questions. Answers tend > to get triggered by keywords without the answering folks reading the > whole question. That's a fair point, but there are also a lot of bad answers because the questions required too much guesswork to answer. --=20 Neil Bothwick Out of sorts? Heck, I'm out of *most* algorithms! --Sig_7iNCWO1+cx563cfwOCHp2tg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF3Jh/um4al0N1GQMRApc5AJ4ypaQKSGExEbohmzjnv/trCS3u3gCgzH79 dlfSFf5EjMjD24AqaDrYlo8= =6LLz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_7iNCWO1+cx563cfwOCHp2tg-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list