From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 26 23:07:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14258 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-gw5.pacbell.net (mail-gw5.pacbell.net [206.13.28.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14243 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:07:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gekk0@usa.net) Received: from rjiredff (ppp-207-214-213-29.sntc01.pacbell.net [207.214.213.29]) by mail-gw5.pacbell.net (8.8.8/8.7.1+antispam) with SMTP id XAA28213; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980826230524.007a3e30@pop.netaddress.com> X-Sender: gekk0@pop.netaddress.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:05:24 -0700 To: Sue Blake From: gek Subject: Re: How would it work? Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980827153830.00276@welearn.com.au> References: <3.0.5.32.19980826221156.00799aa0@pop.netaddress.com> <3.0.5.32.19980826211949.00797b60@pop.netaddress.com> <3.0.5.32.19980826190359.0079d730@pop.netaddress.com> <3.0.5.32.19980826190359.0079d730@pop.netaddress.com> <19980827135247.43750@welearn.com.au> <3.0.5.32.19980826211949.00797b60@pop.netaddress.com> <19980827145246.26504@welearn.com.au> <3.0.5.32.19980826221156.00799aa0@pop.netaddress.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lets see, your either reading too much into my words, or trying to twist my words, or just don't want me to start a new list, or trying to point out the "troubles" in starting a new list....or some of each. OK....one more time. It is a FreeBSD newbies list. It is related to freebsd, and generally freebsd would be the topic. Someone who would prefer to talk primarily about dog traning would not join this list, at least I would look for a list about training dogs, not some list to help people new to a Operating System. If you want to find people to crochet with, there is no harm in saying "hey, anyone in Australia intertested in getting a weekly crochet session going, email me". I have no problem with that...my delete button works great, but if the talk was "what color of yarn should I for this white horse, or how many cross-stitches does..., etc etc" this chat can be taken to a list about crochet. My life does not revolve around freebsd, and I have other interests. If people want to you the list as a way to say hey...those of us in a general area lets get to lunch, or who wants to go club hopping up in the city, groovy, so be it. How will they know this a list targeted to newbies? I don't know, they cold read the email addy of the list (fbsd-newbies), that is a good clue. I would think people would engage their brain, and it does take a brain to run FreeBSD. What if I run short on time? I could always ask for help...no shame in that. I'm sure when I go on vacation, I'm sure someone would be willing to monitor things, to ensure no one was being blatantly hostile. If a community cannot communicate openly, then that community will soon die. I am the list manager, but am not running it on my server. I have already had a offer to run this list on another server, other than my current list server. I am not in competion with this list, only providing another source to seek help. Regards, Kevin to subscribe: fbsd-newbies-subscribe@makelist.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message