From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Feb 9 12: 9: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mario.zyan.com (mario.zyan.com [209.250.96.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE71937B69F for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:08:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from aviating.com (node-64-248-54-162.dslspeed.zyan.com [64.248.54.162]) by mario.zyan.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA32922 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:08:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jallen@aviating.com) Message-ID: <3A844E50.792C2E29@aviating.com> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:08:48 -0800 From: Jim Allen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Hello from russia! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org So all of us newbies should subscribe to -questions also, as we try to sort through all the technical mysteries we are encountering, even though they are elementary newbie questions? Jim Allen Rick Hamell wrote: > > > So what if I answer this question here? Is that bad? Does this rob us > > newbies of precious bandwidth that could have been used for non-technical > > discussions? > > > > I just don't get this list. :-) > > No.... :) This list was created with the cavet that NO technical > questions be asked here. Because those who hang on -questions did not want > to be subscribed to yet another email list, AND it was felt that the > FreeBSD project needed only one point of contact for technical > questions. The secondary effect is that since this is a -newbie list and > newbie could potentially answer a question wrong. Without someone more > experienced around to watch for that... bad things could happen to your > system. The simple fact is that this list needs to be renamed to > newbie-chat or deleted. :) > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message