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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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