[Fwd: Welcome to Sun-managers]

From: Kevin Warren (warrenkb@aom.bt.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 26 1997 - 03:20:39 CDT


Robert and others,

Thankyou for your apology. For your information I have copied the
relevant sections from the welcome message you should have received when
you subscribed to the list.

It is my opinion that you are not alone in breaching the rules of the
list and I and others are becoming increasingly tired of it. This
mailiing list is for specific technical problems with Sun machines that
cannot be resolved by simply reading the manual. Many many people are
posting all sorts of rubbish and as a result some people are
unsubscribing. This to me is a great loss, because one such departee
was a SUN engineer and I would rather have him on the list with his
technical knowlege and experience than some user who posts requests for
help converting postscript files to GIF!

My apologies for attaching the long information that most of you
received and read already. However, just how many more people will post
ADD/REMOVE requests to the list address?

This mailing list is currently a very valuable resource to me. If I
have to continue deleting 40-50 messages of rubbish PER DAY then I too
will unsubscribe.

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> 9: When including a traceback from a system panic, make sure that it is
> a SYMBOLIC traceback. Numeric tracebacks (the ones included as part
> of the panic message) are totally useless. Read chapter 22 of the
> SunOS 4.1 system administration manual to learn how to produce a
> symbolic traceback.
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> and mailing lists around to cover the marginal topics. Perhaps there
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> specific newsgroups included in the next section. Perhaps your
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> There is now an entire heirarchy devoted to Sun equipment:
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> comp.sys.sun.announce Announcements pertaining to Sun equipment
> comp.sys.sun.apps Applications that run on Suns
> comp.sys.sun.hardware Sun hardware (and clones too, I think)
> comp.sys.sun.misc Miscellaneous
> comp.sys.sun.wanted Sun stuff to buy or sell
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> Other newsgroups that may also be of interest:
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> alt.sys.sun may not be available everywhere
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> Sun-386i: discussion about the Sun 386i product
> sun-386i-request@ssg.com add requests
> sun-386i@ssg.com submissions
>
> Suns-at-home: discussion about maintaining Sun2/3/4/4c
> systems at home
> suns-at-home-request@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu add requests
> suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu submissions
>
> Auspex: managers of Auspex NFS file servers
> auspex-request@princeton.edu add requests
> auspex@princeton.edu submissions
>
> Epoch: managers of Epoch NFS file servers
> EPoch Users Forum (EPUF)
> epuf-request@mcs.anl.gov add requests
> epuf@mcs.anl.gov submissions
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> Subject: 1.4) What should I keep in mind when posting to sun-managers?
>
> o VERY IMPORTANT! Before you post, read the sun-manager's policy, which is
> available for anonymous ftp from ra.mcs.anl.gov in /sun-managers/policy.
>
> o Sun-Managers is a huge unmoderated mailing list. Every message you send
> will be passed on to every member of the list. This means you get access
> to a much larger audience when you need help, but it also means you can
> embarrass yourself in front of a huge number of people, most of them
> professionals in your field, including colleagues, peers, and possible
> future employers.
>
> o Sun-Managers is completely voluntary. Nobody is required to help you.
> We are all cooperating by sharing our knowledge. Accept with grace
> whatever responses you get, and don't hound people if they are helpful or
> they won't be the next time.
>
> o Sun-Managers is not the list to use when you run out of other places to
> post. Job postings, PC questions, X questions all have their own lists
> and newsgroups. Use _only_ the appropriate list or newsgroup for such
> things, not Sun-Managers. Inappropriate postings will only make people
> annoyed at you.
>
> o The more information you give about a problem, the easier it is for
> others to help you. This doesn't mean you should uuencode the kernel and
> post it, but you should include your OS version, your hardware, and all
> relevant symptoms of your problem. Unless the request is of a general
> nature, the output of "uname -a" is almost certainly helpful.
>
> o Be generous. If you have the information requested (especially if it is
> obscure) then please respond. You may be the person requesting help
> next time.
>
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