From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 00:39:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25499 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:39:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25483 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:39:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA08476 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:44:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from drwho) Message-ID: <19990120004421.B8453@drwho.xnet.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:44:21 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD need a -notreallyrelatedtoFreeBSDbut mailing list? Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 07:02:35PM -0800 X-Useless-Header: http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 07:02:35PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Mike Meyer 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. > > Adding yet another mailing list is IMO, unneeded. ---end quoted text--- But there is clearly a problem here: the trick is getting people to USE it in the first place, instead of dumping everything here. -- drwho @ xnet.com, BOFH -- http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous. Copyright(c)1999 Michael Maxwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message