From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 22:25:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11110 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA11103 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:25:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 4972 invoked by uid 100); 20 Jan 1999 06:25:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jan 1999 06:25:04 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:25:04 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD need a -notreallyrelatedtoFreeBSDbut mailing list? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > >My suggestion would be: > > > > FreeBSD-questions: questions about things found on the FreeBSD > > ftp servers (problems, what to use, etc). > > FreeBSD-applications: questions about software running on > > FreeBSD that came from elsewhere. > > This is email madness. I did read the original message. The place for > these messages exists and is called freebsd-chat. That isn't the way I read the charter for -chat. It looks like a catchall for *nontechnical* issues. Is looking for some specific application - or having problems with a third-party app - a nontechnical issue? In particular, do we want people trying to get an answer to such a question to have to wade through, for instance, discussion about whether Jordan looks like a toon ferret or not, to get it? Either a new list, or a (rather minor, actually) broadening of the charter for questions to include these issues would certainly be a better solution.