Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:05:34 -0400 From: Steve Kudlak <chromexa@ovis.net> To: Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies web page [was: -newbies] Message-ID: <39E9E3DE.9FF4DA71@ovis.net> References: <39E86BC9.4FA97AC1@uswest.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010130733420.24921-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20001015034050.E2537@welearn.com.au> <39E8CA77.6EE4B0C7@uswest.net>
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Joe Warner wrote: > >When you join -newbies you get a brief run-down, and then the FAK > >is posted once a week. What do you want, daily? > > No. How about every 5 days? > > Sue Blake wrote: > > > (First, I'd like to request that freebsd-chat be removed from the > > headers of replies. This is a freebsd-newbies discussion, and newbies > > might not realise that posting to several lists at once is generally > > discouraged. FreeBSD-chat is mostly for non-FreeBSD chat that spills > > over from the technical lists where it becomes off topic there.) > > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:52:00AM +0000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > > > (and someone else wrote...) > > > > > > > Maybe it would help if Sue's "FreeBSD Newbies First Aid Kit" was > > > > posted more often? > > > > When you join -newbies you get a brief run-down, and then the FAK > > is posted once a week. What do you want, daily? > > > > > Yes, we also should try to get the -newbies Web Page updated... > > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies. > > > > All you need to do is send me ideas for change, and it'll be done. > > I've mentioned this to newbies over and over. Nobody has ever done so!! > > > > We do need to have a central starting point for newbies on the FreeBSD > > web site. While I've received many notes of appreciation, the support > > for this, in terms of contributions suggestions or ideas, has been > > consistently underwhelming. > > > > You guys have to learn that you are not consumers. You get what you > > want by collaborating on it and then getting up and _doing_ it, or > > at least helping out those who are already doing stuff. > > This is the real world. You don't have no Mummy round no more. > > Live with it. Learn to thrive on it. > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > -*Sue*- > > > > > > -- > > FreeBSD = The Power to Serve > ..Simply put = FreeBSD Rocks! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message At the risk of running to into trouble I will say I think a low level Mummy in the form of a web page would be a great idea. It could [GASP!] answer a few simple questions and point people off in the right direction, like reading manuals rather than fire away with questions. Whether in "newbies" or "questions" a web page or two with the basics of how to set up cron and at jobs and a few pointers to asking good questions would be helfpul in addition to good literature. I come from a kinder gentler universe, so marine corps "Get Used to It" is something I think shouldslowly fade from*nix. Have Fun, Sends Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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