Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:30:43 -0500 From: Rick Siple <RickSiple@mpainc.com> To: "'freebsd-chat@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: newbies mailing list Message-ID: <6150EE893AC3D011A3360020AFF799985F8C@INETSERVER>
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Grrrr..... Stupid internet mail connector... Sorry for the poorly formatted reply, given the still running thread about poorly formatted e-mail. I have yet to figure out how to get Outlook and/or Exhange's Internet Mail Connector to stop quoting everything like that. > I think the key is to not be embarrassed to ask anything. On this note I can say that I put an exceptional amount of thought into the messages I send to questions (all three of the questions). Basically, it is just because I don't want to look like an idiot. I have a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering so I consider myself to be a fairly intelligent individual, but I am still intimidated by the more experienced members on the lists. I don't know how to solve the problem, but I would hate to see the user base become divided as the members of the proposed newbies list gain more experience but perhaps fail to migrate to the original lists because they are more comfortable where they are. > I 'third' the search-archive problem. Improvement is necessary there, > although the hiccuping hub.freebsd disk may be somewhat to blame. I've experienced this myself. The major problem seems to be that the messages are not threaded. If NNTP articles were used instead of simple SMTP messages could the indexing engine be setup to allow navigation of threads instead of individual messages? Sometimes the article that mentions the keyword is the question and the answering articles did not quote the keyword. Following threads on the mailing lists as they occur can be just as difficult as persons respond to earlier postings and create multiple threads. I can't be the first person to have thought of this and I can think of more than one technical difficulty. First, a news reader is more difficult to setup for the end user. Second, I don't know if the freely available NNTP servers can handle private newsgroups (newsgroups sourced specifically by freebsd.org). Third, if any of the software can do private lists, can it also perform access control to keep newbies from accidentally posting to the technical lists. Also, the indexer would have to be changed to handle threaded articles, etc..... I'll stop babbling, as this has probably been hashed out before. -Rick Siple RickSiple@MPAInc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehome | help
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