From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 14:56:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F00316A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:56:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44E443D53 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:56:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20041228145608i92002bhj7e>; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:56:27 +0000 Message-ID: <41D17404.8070508@nbritton.org> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:56:04 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041219) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Zumbrunn References: <20041228230146.A70476@welearn.com.au> <41D1652E.3020402@nbritton.org> <0AA78600-58DD-11D9-BA41-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> In-Reply-To: <0AA78600-58DD-11D9-BA41-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's time to shut down this list. X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:56:28 -0000 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