I Am NOT A Free Help Desk!

Only Consume My Time If

Else Do Not Contact Me,
Use Free Resources:

• Learn By Trying (& Reading Help Pages)

  • Mail List Membership Please Do NOT waste your time asking me to waste my time too, putting you on & removing you from mail lists. My mail filter discards requests unseen. In person I refuse too. Do It Yourself.
  • Ski Trip Bookings etc Read the trip info., then book in.

• Read club Web Pages

  Questions about clubs such as BIM, BG, GEA, MECC, you should first read their web pages, then Join their mail lists & ask at their meetings, or perhaps search the mail list archives.

• My Indexes To Look Through

  • My Standard Mail Replies : Save yourself typing your question and waiting for a reply!
  • My Texts : Web pages of Info .
  • My Source Code

• Search Engines

• Tech. Issues: Read Organisations' own Documentation !

  • Read FreeBSD documentation & FreeBSD web site in German too .

• Ask On Lists

  • Post your questions to your club or organisation's newsgroup or mail list. Let those with more/ most current time available, knowledge, & enthusiasm respond.
  • BSD Questions: Use FreeBSD.org & other BSD mail lists such as questions@FreeBSD.org
  • German BSD Questions: Write to German lists via majordomo@de.freebsd.org

I am NOT a free help desk - I have NO Time !

• I used to get far too many mails & phone calls, from club members of various mail lists I run, attenders of club events I organise, etc, plus strangers who'd read my web pages, etc, all distracting & consuming valuable time. Some was quite interesting, some I wanted to help, some just wated time, but it was all Unpaid, distracting, & I don't have time.

• Do NOT ask me for help with your mail list problems !

  • If you are too incompetent to use free resources (& some are, & are nice people anyway), Please ask some other friend (Not me!) I really do Not have time !
  • I do Not have time to help so many individuals:
    • I take a major part in running several clubs, numerous mail lists, servers & support software & web help pages.
    • One list has over 300 people, some of whom are genuinely technicaly incompetent (but nice people anyway), & many who are too lazy to learn, & some not quite so nice, preferring to try to waste my time.
    • No way can I personally support all club & list members personally , & supporting just some just encouraged more complaints & requests for help from the rest, so I now don't help any (& my spam filter auto discards change requests, sight unseen). Ask (& reward) some other friend to help you eg in joining or leaving etc.