Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 15:38:17 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list Message-ID: <34FB42E9.284874EC@san.rr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301210912.26963A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <34FA9C54.777800CE@san.rr.com> <19980303004002.42687@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake wrote: [snippage] > Doug, I've read your next email and it seems you're still catching up with > the discussion and throwing comments in while the ideas are fresh. That's > fine, but it might be a little early to respond to them. Your assumption is incorrect. In fact, I read all of the posts in the thread and thought carefully about them before I replied. Please don't assume that because I haven't reached the same conclusion you have that I don't adequately understand the topic. > Let me just clarify that I'm not trying to solve all support problems, or > all newbies problems. I'm trying to focus on one thing. If the discussion > leads people to want to work on other things that's great, but I'm not going > to have time to be sidetracked. Yes, I think you've identified what I perceive to be a fairly substantial problem. You want a newbies mailing list. You want to focus your attention on that goal to the exclusion of all else, including the discussion regarding whether or not that is the best way to help new users. In an attempt to avoid further confusion, let me state explicitly what I attempted to say tactfully in my previous letter. I think your narrow mindedness regarding this issue is dangerous, and I think that you could end up doing more harm than good by providing a superficial "solution" to what is actually a very important part of the FreeBSD project. > I don't think anyone needs to feel threatened by the prospect of newbies > taking over, I don't think anyone does. In the abscence of evidence to the contrary I will avoid categorizing your attempt to attribute the arguments of those who have valid disagreements with your perspective as ignorance and fear to malice on your part. I will instead assume that your zeal to accomplish your goal has clouded your judgement. As it turns out, not only do I have a lot of experience providing end user support both in person and over the internet, I actually get paid to do it. I will avoid further tooting of my own horn, and would like to have avoided it altogether except that I think it will help serve to dispel the notion that I don't actually understand the topic at hand. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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