Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 17:22:45 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Gary Roberts <gary@wcs.uq.oz.au> Cc: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com (Jeffrey Hsu), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups Message-ID: <811.798769365@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Apr 95 09:58:35 %2B1000." <9504242358.AA15172@wcs.uq.edu.au>
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> I think there are probably a large number of `semi-skilled' users (like > myself) who love FreeBSD and have developed to the point of having no > real problems with basic installation and configuration, kernel > re-building, etc. We `lurk' on these lists but for whatever reason only > occasionally enter the discussion or try to help. The `power' developers > (and I'm not going to name any names -- we all know who you are) need to be > freed from having overflowing mailboxes. If every `lurker' agreed to > `adopt a newbie' and hold his/her hand until he/she got running, that > should immediately reduce newbie traffic in both news and mail by > transferring the traffic from the public lists to private e-mail. However, If you manage to make this go, you have my personal nomination for the Nobel peace prize. That's all I'm going to say about it! :-) Jordan
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