From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 21:55:27 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 DD67416A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:55:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from brightstar.bomgardner.net (brightstar.bomgardner.net [209.240.79.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7D243D31 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:55:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listmail@Bomgardner.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (morningstar [192.168.0.2]) by brightstar.bomgardner.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D8B21D85D; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:55:31 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41EC3449.9040004@Bomgardner.net> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:55:21 -0600 From: Gene User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Durham References: <200501151147.54192.durham@jcdurham.com> <41E95D13.30605@mac.com> <200501171338.39381.durham@jcdurham.com> In-Reply-To: <200501171338.39381.durham@jcdurham.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:55:28 -0000 Ever thought about starting one of your own? Gene Jim Durham wrote: >On Saturday 15 January 2005 01:12 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > >>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? >> >> > >Sorry for the slow reply...I was out of touch for a day.. > >I guess I'm thinking that there are just a lot of things that you get into in >a corporate environment . "For instances" are hard to think of off the top of >my head, but, how about implementing Citrix NFuse on Tomcat on FreeBSD? They >always assume Linux or Solaris or (sorry..SCO..8-) ) and while you can make >it work on FreeBSD, you spend a lot of time fixing stuff that probably >someone else has fixed before or conversly, you should be sharing thi info so >others don't have to wade through the 'discovery' process. > > >>Or does your question mean you looking for a list whose members are mostly >>sysadmins and network managers, rather than end-users? >> >> > >Exactly. > > > >>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. >> >> > >What I'm saying is a list like freebsd-isp, but focused on corporate IT with >FreeBSD. -isp is helpful, and I *am* subscribed, but doesn't include a lot >of IT types. > >(snip) > > >