Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:26:28 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Ash Gokhale <ash.gokhale@noaa.gov> Cc: Eric@savaka.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD-newbies is a community. Message-ID: <20040319215628.GL21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <853AE3A7-79BE-11D8-9740-00039383C51E@noaa.gov> References: <1079648282.405a201a64217@savaka.com> <004c01c40d59$38e8d550$1e0a0a0a@nt.shinawatra.ac.th> <20040319030343.GA21807@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040318222230.F54150@floyd.gnulife.org> <1079675230.86745.91.camel@compass> <853AE3A7-79BE-11D8-9740-00039383C51E@noaa.gov>
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--kK1uqZGE6pgsGNyR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 11:00:19 -0500, Ash Gokhale wrote: > Asbestos underwear aside, FreeBSD is a community that is expanding > at all the tiers, from n00b ,operator,admin, developer and finally to "I > write interrupt level microcode for God's machine herself, how dare you > ask that question on this list, this is clearly a ports problem, > uggh!". The best part of the list it is that it belongs to the people > who use it moderately and politely. > > Appropriating the newbie list for a wider range of questions gives > people a chance to play with ideas they would not ordinarily be exposed > to. People who come to FreeBSD from another unix should appreciate this > variety. Real brand new unix/BSD mephits will appreciate good humor and > courtesy. Well, this may be your opinion, and you're welcome to it, but it goes against the charter. > I would hate to bug -hackers, or -questions with an OpenSSL > upgrade question. But that's exactly what -questions is for. -newbies is not. > That said, our successful community will not scold people who > don't know where to get the information they seek. We will instead > try to help, and buy suggesting different approaches, give everyone > learns something different. The best way to help is to stick to the charter. A number of people have explained why it's there. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --kK1uqZGE6pgsGNyR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAW2yMIubykFB6QiMRAvayAJ49MbvRFXQIhrXG4kPIKe5BJJ/XwQCdGSR/ 1F+SxPwg0qLpXhzUTImXwvA= =zChm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kK1uqZGE6pgsGNyR--
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