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 Subscriptions by Free Mail Robot. Please Do NOT waste your time asking me to waste my time too, doing manual subscription requests : My personal mail filter discards subscription requests unseen. In person I always refuse too. Learn to Do It Yourself.
  • Ski Trip Bookings etc Read the trip info., then book in.

• Read Club Web Pages

  Questions about clubs such as BIM, GEA, MECC, you should first read their web pages, then subscribe their mail list & 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

  • Search Engine Link To Google For My Pages : (At base of my personal home page).
  • Search Engine Link To Google For Berklix Club Pages & BSD

• Tech. Issues: Read Organisations' own Documentation !

  • Read English BSD 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 questions@ mail lists subscribable via eg FreeBSD.org
  • German BSD Questions: Write to German lists subscribed 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, but it was all Unpaid, distracting, & I don't have time, Sorry.
• If you are too incompetent to use free resources above (& some are, & are nice people anyway), Please ask some other friend (Not me!) I really don't have time !
• Sorry, 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 200 people, some of whom are genuinely technicly incompetent (but nice people anyway), & many who are merely too lazy to learn, & 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. Ask (& reward) some other friend to help you eg in subscribing etc.