From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 19:08:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069BB16A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:08:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178BF43D41 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:08:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lute@vfemail.net) Received: (qmail 87502 invoked by uid 85); 30 Dec 2004 19:08:17 -0000 Received: from lute@vfemail.net by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 2.307146 secs); 30 Dec 2004 19:08:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO agnes.myhome.net) (lute@vfemail.net@63.229.187.130) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with SMTP; 30 Dec 2004 19:08:15 -0000 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:08:15 -0600 From: Lute Mullenix To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041230130815.568afedc@agnes.myhome.net> In-Reply-To: <41D17D1E.60201@nbritton.org> References: <20041228145253.550658DC026@ha-smtp1.tiscali.nl> <41D17D1E.60201@nbritton.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.13 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: It's time to shut down this list. X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:08:20 -0000 On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:34:54 -0600 Nikolas Britton insisted: > Ok, I have a solution to the problems at hand. Delete this list and > "charter" then start a new list named freebsd-newbies and make up a new > "charter" with the inclusion of basic newbie help questions. I see this > as the only real solution to this problem as every one here seems to get > > all bent out of shape when you don't follow a charter, rule, or some > other obscure thing so lets just skirt around the issue and use this > loop hole so we can have are calk and eat it to. > I kind of like that idea. While I am not a total newbie, been using FreeBSD since getting 4.3 in Annelise Anderson's book. Have used two different versions of X and a whole slew of window managers, but there are a lot of stuff I still don't know. Don't get the questions list because it's a total flood that I don't want to deal with it. And if anyone has ever tried some of the FreeBSD IRC channels you know they can be less than sociable. Also have been totally ignored more than once on the questions list so not real fond of that either. So I have been thinking that I was going to be left totally on my own once this list shuts down. I have managed to get by for the most part cuz I'm not afraid to read but sometimes I don't have a clue where to even start. So something like this could be a workable alternative. I would support this idea. -- Lute It's OK to be different FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE