From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 13: 8:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.SKINNYHIPPO.COM (mail.SKINNYHIPPO.COM [216.25.13.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D408115588 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:08:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from panda@skinnyhippo.com) Received: from egg [202.188.111.43] by mail.SKINNYHIPPO.COM (SMTPD32-5.05) id AFC2383010E; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:06:26 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990828044251.009f4ea0@mail.skinnyhippo.com> X-Sender: panda@mail.skinnyhippo.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 04:42:51 +0900 To: Brian From: chas Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program - Thanks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.19990828040752.00957750@mail.skinnyhippo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ... 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