Re: New unofficial document - oamp.pdf

[Jeremy Bowen <jammer@flashmail.com>]

Bram Van Dam wrote:
>  1. Made up of a variety of parts or ingredients. 2. Having a variety
>  of characteristics, abilities, or appearances. 3. Concerned with
>  diverse subjects or aspects.
>
>  I have saved you the effort of looking up the meaning of the word
>  "miscellaneous". Perhaps this will help you understand.

Yes but obviously Bram *you* don't understand.

If "miscellaneous" is the umbrella topic for this mailing list then your 
definition opens it up to postings on every subject under the sun, 
starting with PHP & MySQL, moving onto Linux and eventually such 
"diverse subjects" as college football and basket-weaving.

"Miscellaneous" does *not* mean this list is a medium for any topic you 
might wish to discuss. My point was that misc@ was not appropriate for 
discussing how to set up 3rd party packages simply because the target 
platform is OpenBSD.

I don't want to discourage people from helping others setup OpenBSD 
systems, only that we had a thread running, mere days ago, about 
gathering just this sort of information together. A simple scan of the 
list archives would have been well worthwhile and the unofficial pdf 
could have been submitted to the site that was setup to accept such docs.

The core of my (admittedly bad-tempered) complaint was that some recent 
posters are:
1) not reading the mailing list/checking the archives first; and
2) not reading the docs/FAQs.
I don't believe either of these steps is unreasonable.

I've now wasted far too much of everyone else's time (for which I 
apologise) so I'll go back to lurking.

Jeremy