Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:26:08 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -newbies Message-ID: <20001014132608.A5353@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010120654170.16556-100000@heorot.1nova.com>; from hamellr@heorot.1nova.com on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:34:20AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010120654170.16556-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <39E6E839.3A0EC2B6@acuson.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010120654170.16556-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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On Thursday, 12 October 2000 at 8:34:20 +0000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > FreeBSD-newbies needs to be removed. I've been on it since it was > created and can say that it is not living up to it's orginal purpose. If I > remeber right, and a quick check of the archives seems to confirm, > -newbies was created only if no questions were asked there. In the last > year or two it has been a low-traffic list. Most every post across it has > either been a cross-post, OR a question! Despite my and several other's > efforts to keep it on topic, and questions posted where they belong, it is > somehow attracting questions. Many of which are not even close to being > newbie questions! Indeed. I've been watching this with some concern. A bit of background: newbies arose from some discussions Sue Blake and I had about traffic on -questions. She voiced the opinion that the topics were too intimidating for real newbies, and that we needed a different list. I disagreed, but in the end suggested we try it for a while. In addition, I promised not to answer any questions on -newbies. For a while, every time somebody asked a technical question on the list, Sue would get up and redirect them to -questions, but she hasn't been doing that lately. On Friday, 13 October 2000 at 10:47:21 +0000, David Johnson wrote: > Rick Hamell wrote: >> >> FreeBSD-newbies needs to be removed. I've been on it since it was >> created and can say that it is not living up to it's orginal purpose. If I >> remeber right, and a quick check of the archives seems to confirm, >> -newbies was created only if no questions were asked there. In the last >> year or two it has been a low-traffic list. Most every post across it has >> either been a cross-post, OR a question! > > Recheck your archives. Questions are allowed, just not technical > questions. Questions like "how to configure X" are a no-no, but > questions like "what window managers should I check out" is okay. Right, but the boundaries are fuzzy. First question: Which wm. Reply: fvwm2. Next question: How to I get it to give focus to the windows automatically? See the problem? > Perhaps the problem is that the name is wrong. In every other set of > mailing lists, -newbies is for newbies with questions. Maybe the > name -newbies-chat would indicate that the list is for newbies, yet > not for questions... That sounds reasonable. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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