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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:19:58 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: new FreeBSD mailing list
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Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:11:41PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> > Who is the correct person @freebsd.org to contact to get a
> > freebsd-performance (or freebsd-perf) mailing list going?  I think it
> > would be nice (and beneficial) to get the performance tweaking and other
> > related stuff into a separate list instead of -questions, -chat, or
> > sometimes even -security.
> 
> Would it not be a better idea to collect together these suggestions in
> to the FAQ, or the tuning(7) man page, instead of on a separate mailing
> list?

FWIW, I think a mailing list is necessary to get collaboration,
and a FAQ is a much better place than a man page, since a lot
of the information isn't going to be applicable to a system
capable of displaying man pages, and it's likely to get very
large, in any case.

-- Terry

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