Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:53:02 +0100 From: "Freek Nossin" <freeknossin@tiscali.nl> To: <FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: It's time to shut down this list. Message-ID: <20041228145253.550658DC026@ha-smtp1.tiscali.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041228230146.A70476@welearn.com.au>
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<snip> From time to time people have asked for a place for new users to ask for technical help. That place is, and has always been, FreeBSD-Questions. If you want a separate group for that, then you have an issue that has nothing to do with the present discussion. If there ever were a mailing list for newbie tech support, it would NOT be this one, it would NOT be this one, do I make myself clear? A new mailing list would have to be created for the purpose, with a different name as well as a different list charter. </snip> I do not see the problem in keeping this list. First you tell us that the original purpose of this list is not of this time anymore. So IF this list still had that purpose as its right to exist, in THAT case the list should be removed (I agree with that). But that isn't the case, obviously. The list is now used by people who don't want to post in the -questions mailing list for various reasons. Now you tell us that there must start a new mailing list for questions that. But why? This mailing list exists already and its name that used to be wrongly chosen (with the old purpose), now DOES cover the idea of the list. I do think that people that start with freebsd should have a place where they can ask "stupid" questions, separate from -questions. There are a number of reasons to do that, but in the past few days they've been summed up a number of times, so I won't bother you all with that. If this list must close for some reason and there is room for a "newbie corner", than I would suggest to create a -questions and a -advanced, or something like that. Ed
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