From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 6 07:51:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00368 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:51:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from min.net (min.net [208.222.210.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00360 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:51:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aling@alum.mit.edu) Received: from localhost (outpost.cc.nih.gov [137.187.245.138]) by min.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26171 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810061451.KAA26171@min.net> From: "A. Ling" To: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 06 Oct 98 10:50:42 -0400 Reply-To: "A. Ling" X-Mailer: Alexander Ling's Registered PMMail 1.53 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Alternative to FreeBSD email archive & 3 cheers for Sue Blake Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apologies if this is the wrong place for this post. Having just read Sue Blake's fine newbies article at: http://www.daemonnews.org/newnewbies.html and followed the links to: http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html I am moved to comment that in the past, I've had trouble finding answers to questions (prior to posting to the -questions email list) at the official FreeBSD mail archive site: http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists The main problem has been that search terms can turn up lots of questions similar to mine, yet no answers, even though I subsequently stumble across mail to the list which adresses the key issue, if not directly answers the question. Though it might turn out that there are better search terms I didnt know/think to use, I have also imagined (without proof) this might happen because people posting apt answers didnt quote the part of the question that contains the search terms, or the answer is on a different thread covering the same topic. In any event, an alternative, if sometimes slow, searchable archive for FreeBSD-questions is http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/ May someone out there find it useful, even if only occasionally! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message