Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:28:57 -0500 From: "Yong Lim" <yong@csfi.com> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, "SILVER, MICHAEL A" <MSILVER@scana.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Hello from russia! Message-ID: <NDBBLNEEEKNNPEMEDDDKGEGNCNAA.yong@csfi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102081221250.2710-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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Is there no middle ground here? For newbies to subscribe to -questions, it is very intimating. I tried and after a few days I had to get out. We don't need to scare off newbies but we don't want to give them wrong answers either. How about sending out disclaimer from this list saying that any answers from -newbies should be tested out first. And for better answers check with -questions. I assume not many people subscribe to -newbies are not running live production systems. If they are they need to re-examine something. But newbies might have starter questions like how to mount an ms-dos floppy on FreeBSD...and a quick answer would carry them to the next stage. Any way, just another rant...How are you doing to carry on a conversation if you can't do Q&A? :-) Yong : -----Original Message----- : From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG : [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rick Hamell : Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 3:24 PM : To: SILVER, MICHAEL A : Cc: 'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG' : Subject: RE: Hello from russia! : : : : > 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
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