From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 18:11:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74C116A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:11:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348E743D31 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-208-232.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.208.232]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0FIBL12088200 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:11:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41E95D13.30605@mac.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:12:35 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Durham References: <200501151147.54192.durham@jcdurham.com> In-Reply-To: <200501151147.54192.durham@jcdurham.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.5 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:11:26 -0000 Jim Durham wrote: > I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running > Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 > servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. OK. > Freebsd-questions is wonderful and I find a lot of answers there, but the > signal-to-noise is low when you are just looking for IT-oriented information > regarding FreeBSD. Especially regarding systems implemented for an office/LAN > environment. > > I was wondering if there is any mailing list or newsgroup devoted to IT on > FreeBSD? Google is not returning any hits on this, nor the listing on > freebsd.org. Your question parses, but it is not clear what specific thing you have in mind that would seperate an IT-oriented list from a non-IT oriented list. Can you either give an example question or two, or can you say why freebsd-questions is *not* IT-oriented? Or does your question mean you looking for a list whose members are mostly sysadmins and network managers, rather than end-users? FreeBSD doesn't really make much distinction between an end-user and a sysadmin [1], but you might find freebsd-stable or freebsd-isp to come closer to what you are looking for. -- -Chuck [1]: Which can be benefit sometimes, or it can be a problem, especially for novice users, but that's another topic.