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On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, arthur wrote:

: It would be a good place for people new to unix to cut their teeth and
: ready themselves for the overwhelming amount of mail that comes from
: subscribing to -questions. 

This is a joke, right?  As much mail as we generate needlessly debating
why newbies should have their own question lists, I've had to install new
e-mail filters just to keep track of it all.

And while I'm up on the soapbox, why is everyone so afraid of asking
questions in FreeBSD-Questions?  The worst that you'll get is ignored or
a standard RTM response.  So what?  You're all adults.  Deal with it.

Besides, two lists requires people to make judgements on whether a
question is for the newbies or advanced enough to make -Questions.  And if
the e-mail on this list is any indication, I might as well just get a job
as a greeter in Level One of Tim's Seven Circles of UNIX Knowledge because
I'll never make it to Level Two.

K.S.


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