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Re: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals
From: John Sage <jsage () finchhaven com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:12:18 -0700
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:57:36AM +0200, HenkP () masana co za wrote:
I am a newcomer to this list, and my first impressions are not very positive. It seems certain people are more interested in flaming than actually helping.
I hope you continue to use this list; you will find the regulars to be quite responsive to those who: 1) appear to have given some effort to answering their questions themselves, before posting.. 2) give full specification of: a) OS you're running snort on b) what version of snort you're running c) what command line parameters you're passing to snort d) often, what snort.conf you're using 3) post an actual, specific question, in the form of a question, not a rambling monologue about how hard something is and how much something sucks and how the poster is just giving up... People often expect answers without saying -> specifically <- what the problem is. I mean, what is anybody supposed to make of this: "...I have tried the doc on snort...it can not possible be correct.... maybe in theory only but not in practice. Something is missing from that doc. I can not get php4, gd2, phplot to work with each other and I have not bother to go any further..." People often expect answers to questions without giving any specifics. Thus the -> volunteers <- who would like to respond are often forced to ask a series of preliminary questions before they *begin* to have enough useful information to begin formulating an answer. This is for the most part a waste of time; Yes: many of the regulars won't even bother.
Suggestion - maybe you should just reply to someone with a oneliner that links to the URL for "howto ask the right questions" instead of pulling people apart.
It's very often lost on new posters that most of the questions have been heard before, and before, and before. That's why there's a FAQ. As for this specific thread, the original poster "pat" <hobo () speakeasy net> did absolutely nothing to endear anyone to him or his problem: go read his original post. He was lucky he received any response at all. If I hadn't been in a bad mood, and -> sarcastically <- responded to his first post he might have received no response whatsoever. Finally, sarcasm is hardly "..pulling people apart.."
I thought the object of the list was to help people... If the questions is one that offends, then rather ignore it, reacting in this way causes a lot of responses from everyone about isuess that has got nothing to do with snort... Like this mail of mine, I have better things to do, than to write this email.
Posters to any list, who are by definition asking -> volunteers <- for their time, in help, do have IMNSHO an obligation to ask questions properly and with some initial courtesy. The original poster did neither. None of the rest of us have time to waste, either, you know... - John -- "In those days, you could not buy a $2000 200MHz Pentium server." PGP key: http://www.finchhaven.com/pages/gpg_pubkey.html Fingerprint: C493 9F26 05A9 6497 9800 4EF6 5FC8 F23D 35A4 F705 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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- RE: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals, (continued)
- RE: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals Dan Mahoney, System Admin (Aug 22)
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- Re: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals John Sage (Aug 22)
- Re: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals John Sage (Aug 22)
- RE: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals Brian Bevers (Aug 22)
- RE: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals twig les (Aug 22)
- Re: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals John Sage (Aug 22)
- Re: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals John Sage (Aug 25)
- Re: installing acid on fbsd4.6 for meer mortals twig les (Aug 25)
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