Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:50:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> To: chas <panda@skinnyhippo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program - Thanks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908271249450.13654-100000@adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990828040752.00957750@mail.skinnyhippo.com>
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So you give a commercial like that without giving a domain or majordomo address?? Bri > Now, has anyone here been on the Sun-managers or Alpha-managers > mailing lists ? These are mailing lists for sysadmins of Sun boxes > and Digital Unix Alpha boxes. Most of these guys/girls run mission > critical apps and high-quality support is paramount. The charter > on the lists runs like this : > > Person-in-trouble posts a question to the list. > > People who know the answer email him/her directly (NOT broadcast to the list). > > Person-in-trouble sorts out his/her problem then posts the solution > back to the list with a subject line that starts "SUMMARY: " followed > by his/her original question. > > Advantages of such a system : > a) people have to show they learned something; it deters the > simple questions asked out of laziness. > b) sifting through the archives is much easier - you can see > the solutions because they have the subject line "SUMMARY:..." > in fact, as soon as i got on the lists, that's all i did for > the first few days - big learning experience > c) less noise of course. this in turn means that members are more > likely to read problems etc. > d) i don't know why, but people tend to read the FAQs and > search the archives more than here. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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