Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 04:42:51 +0900 From: chas <panda@skinnyhippo.com> To: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program - Thanks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990828044251.009f4ea0@mail.skinnyhippo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908271249450.13654-100000@adsl-216-102-203- 44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <3.0.5.32.19990828040752.00957750@mail.skinnyhippo.com>
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At 12:50 PM 8/27/99 -0700, Brian wrote: >So you give a commercial like that without giving a domain or majordomo >address?? oops, sorry. sun managers : http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html looks like they've renamed the alpha-managers one : http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/tru64-unix-managers/ btw, not really a commercial <g> ... i'm off both lists but remember the times when they saved my hide. if you check their archives, you'll see what i mean about SUMMARY's. chas >> 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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