New Project Questions

[Matthew Seaman]

On 08/09/2014 05:59, Dave Babb wrote:
> I don't know if there are email length limitations, frequency limits, or
> what the culture is on this mailing list.

Formally, there are no limitations on how much or how often you can post
here.  However you will find you get better results if you ask your
questions in a concise and direct way, and keep to one main issue in
each posting.

In general, the culture here is friendly and supportive, and you will
probably get useful answers.  freebsd-questions is the generic mailing
list and the best place for beginner's questions, or to ask questions
where you're not sure what the best forum is.  There are quite a few
more specialised technical lists and we'll refer you to those when
appropriate.

> I do not forsee a lot of issues, thus I don;t forsee a lot of emails
> that I would generate. I've been in IT since the days of the Eniac and
> acoustically coupled modems. While I may be experienced and seasoned...I
> am very junior to FreeBSD....< 1 year as stated earlier. In reality I am
> looking for assistance validating my plan to make sure it is FreeBSD in
> style and best practice. I am NOT asking for others to do my work for
> me...just validate it to ensure I stay within acceptable best practices
> for FreeBSD. Said another way, I am looking for a litmus test for best
> practice and protection against misapplication of FreeBSD.

So long as what you ask is relevant and the answers are not trivially
discoverable by a cursory web search, there should be no problems.

> I do the formal walk-through with the City tomorrow (Monday the
> 8th)...and I can then make the design and implementation plans on my end
> before I litmus check it with this list.
> 
> I would expect at some time to generate a chart, be that a DIA chart, or
> some other charting software (feel free to recommend one), for drawing
> up the new network architecture based upon my walk-through tomorrow.

Software for drawing diagrams is something that has come up before --
it's not quite a perennial favourite, but certainly something that will
get you a number of suggested alternatives.  Unfortunately it seems
there is no really top class free and open alternative to Visio.

> More Q's: Are attachments allowed or not? PDF? or Native format?

Attachments are limited to a small number of textual types --
essentially diffs or other ascii text.  You're best off not attaching
anything. If you can, ask your question entirely in the body of your
e-mail.  If you need to show people diagrams or voluminous program
output, then it's best to put that up on the web somewhere and post a
link.  Pastebin sites are popular for that.

> Would someone in this mailing list please let me know what the culture
> is and proper usage of this list is, and what is expected of me when I
> generate an email to this list?

Stay polite, do your own homework and try and keep relevant.  That's
pretty much it.  Although if you do have any interesting anecdotes from
back in the Eniac days, you'll probably find a willing audience here
(within reason -- there's the freebsd-chat@ list which is really the
intended venue for that sort of thing.)

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

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