From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 23 14:19:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from motgate.mot.com (motgate.mot.com [129.188.136.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C39637B423 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 14:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Charles.S.Libby@motorola.com) Received: [from pobox3.mot.com (pobox3.mot.com [10.64.251.242]) by motgate.mot.com (motgate 2.1) with ESMTP id OAA01458 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 14:19:11 -0700 (MST)] Received: [from il33exm02.wes.mot.com (il33exm02.wes.mot.com [154.56.3.102]) by pobox3.mot.com (MOT-pobox3 2.0) with ESMTP id OAA23102 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 14:13:00 -0700 (MST)] Received: by il33exm02.wes.mot.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:19:10 -0500 Message-ID: From: Libby Charles-CCL044 To: "'Sue Blake'" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: mad about questions? newbies list=what? Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:19:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It does??? Would you mind letting me know (in private mail if you like) what book that was, and exactly what words it uses? If people really are being told to ask _support_questions_ here, that's a shame. It would mean that they would be stepping outside the list charter. Keeping within list charters is a condition of using the freebsd lists. You should go to the authoritative source, the list charters (descriptions) on the freebsd.org web site. The Complete FreeBSD 3rd Edition Chapter 1: Introduction Page 15 Paragraph Support "A good place to start is with the mailing lists FreeBSD-newbies and freebsd-questions respectively. To sign up sen a mail message to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with the text ..." I subscribed to this list because of this page as well. I just have lurked for a while so I have seen several flamed for asking questions, and I know to go to questions when I ask. Charles S. Libby Technical Instructor iDEN Technical Training Motorola (847) 576-0617 Rom 10:9,10 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message