On Wed, 14 Feb 1996 07:38:24 -0500 
 Peter Berger <peterb@hoopoe.psc.edu> wrote:

 > People (not me) post on the netbsd newsgroups asking for help installing
 > netbsd-pmax.  Response:
 > 
 > "Send mail to the mailing list."

This is usually a good response.  I, personally, get hundreds of messages 
a day, and quite frankly, don't have much time to read USENET anymore.  
When I do, I try to answer the question, and if I can't, I forward the 
person who asked it on to someone who might...like the port-pmax mailing 
list, for example.

 > People send mail to the mailing list, and are ignored. 

I think this is an unfair judgement.  Ignoring you isn't the intent.  
Maybe they're just to busy to think about it at the moment?  There are 
any number of reasons why a question might go unanswered for a period of 
time.

 > I -know- you're volunteers and are not here for our convenience.
 > I appreciate the work you're doing.  But what would be nice is if
 > no one -knows- how to install NetBSD Pmax, and no one -knows- why
 > Arne's latest instructions fail (by the way, thanks Arne -- I 
 > do appreciate your giving it a shot!), then -SAY THAT- so that those
 > of us who have been considering netbsd-pmax for use in a production
 > environment can quietly cross it off of our list and go on our way.

There are other resources, too.  Altavista will return matches on 
"NetBSD/pmax" ... one of them is the URL to the installation guide that 
Jonathan Stone wrote, which is available at:

	http://www.NetBSD.ORG/Ports/pmax/pmax-install.html

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