Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:32:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list Message-ID: <19980301133234.11473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980301105650.47895@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 10:56:51AM %2B1100 References: <19980301105650.47895@welearn.com.au>
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On Sun, 1 March 1998 at 10:56:51 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > I am a newbie and that's not going to change for quite a while. For many > reasons I want to talk to other newbies in a newbie environment. I skimmed over this a while back, and I though "I wonder what Sue Blake will think of this". I suppose I've stopped wondering. > It's hard to explain my reasons and you'll probably find this hard to > understand, but I ask you for the moment just to accept that the need might > be felt to exist, at least for some people. Freebsd-questions is good and > useful, and so is the FAQ etc, but there's still something missing. I think you'll find that something will continue to be missing. I've thought about these problems, too, but I haven't come up with a useful solution. Life's a bitch. > I've never had a great deal of success with the mailing list search (I tend > to get the questions but not the answers), but found the topic of a mailing > list for newbies raised briefly last October, and some reference to previous > discussions which were not visible. Now *that* might be a problem that could be addressed. I find the mailing list search pretty useless, too. > I have a lot of ideas about what I'd like to see, but most great > ideas to date have turned out to be crap in the light of further > information. Could someone please summarise the argument against a > mailing list for newbies before I either press for one to be created > or do it myself. I think that I could summarize the arguments against with "the blind leading the blind". At least in -questions you have a couple of one-eyed men. You also have a number of people who can scare newbies off, sure, but that will happen even if there's a newbies list. At the moment, I have concerns about the overlap between -questions and -hackers (see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html). A newbies list would just compound the problem. On the other hand, I can't really see much advantage from a newbies list. Maybe you should present more arguments. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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