[Samba] This list is a black hole.

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 06:12 -0700, Steven Rice wrote:
> Many questions goes in,
> Very few answers come out.
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Concise questions that narrow the scope of the problem are answered most
of the time.

Questions with large amounts of information that take a lot of time to
process and questions that demonstrate that the person hasn't spent much
time to narrow the problem or the question are likely to be passed over.

There is a treatise on how to ask questions the smart way...
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Bear in mind that this is entirely volunteer and no one is paid to solve
your problems. If you want paid support, SuSE Professional, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and others provide SLA (Service Level Agreements) to
solve your issues.

If your question doesn't get answered in a day or two, it's likely you
need to rephrase your question, hopefully reducing the volume and
narrowing the scope with the additional information that you've been
able to gather in the interim.

Lastly, consider that just about everything is covered in the
outstanding documentation available in dead tree, html or pdf form in
the publications titled "Official Samba 3 HowTo" and "Samba By Example"
- see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs

Craig