From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 23 18:16:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2909937B43C for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 18:16:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rootman@xmission.com) Received: from [166.70.6.29] (helo=blackmirror.xmission.com) by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 152jjQ-0000Qs-00; Wed, 23 May 2001 19:16:05 -0600 From: Joe Warner Organization: Daemon News To: Libby Charles-CCL044 , "'Sue Blake'" Subject: RE: mad about questions? newbies list=what? Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:59:32 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052319153700.00354@blackmirror.xmission.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Wed, 23 May 2001, Libby Charles-CCL044 wrote: > 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 ..." > ...and Chapter 1: Introduction Page: 16 Pagagraph: Support ..says: "As the welcome message says, -newbies is a discussion group for people new to FreeBSD; it's not intended for real technical problems. Use -questions for that." Right above that, is text taken directly from the freebsd-newbies charter: FREEBSD-NEWBIES Welcome to FreeBSD! This list is a gathering place for people new to FreeBSD. Please feel free to share your experiences with others on this list. Support questions should be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (NOT to the newbies list please) Full info and FAK http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ Resource list http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/newbies.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message