Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:56:04 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Chris Zumbrunn <chris@zumbrunn.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's time to shut down this list. Message-ID: <41D17404.8070508@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <0AA78600-58DD-11D9-BA41-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> References: <20041228230146.A70476@welearn.com.au> <41D1652E.3020402@nbritton.org> <0AA78600-58DD-11D9-BA41-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com>
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Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> Thats fine sue but what are we going to do with the new people that >> are too overwhelmed, intimidated, or jilted (from past experiences) >> to post to the questions mailing list? > > > Isn't the main reason why new users are intimidated to ask questions > on freebsd-questions because of the very existence of freebsd-newbies? > Because freebsd-newbies exists, the newbies feel that that's where > they belong. For the future new users, that will never have heard that > freebsd-newbies ever existed, it will be natural to ask questions on > freebsd-questions. Instead they will be intimidated to discuss > "specific technical issue" on freebsd-hackers ;-) > Yea I see your point but there's still the ones that feel overwhelmed by the volume of traffic on the questions list and to a lesser extent the jilted ones from being told to RTFM on linux type lists
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