From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Oct 13 10:49:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFDE37B502 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.109]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5A12; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:52:41 -0700 Message-ID: <39E6E839.3A0EC2B6@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:47:21 +0000 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -newbies References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rick Hamell wrote: > > FreeBSD-newbies needs to be removed. I've been on it since it was > created and can say that it is not living up to it's orginal purpose. If I > remeber right, and a quick check of the archives seems to confirm, > -newbies was created only if no questions were asked there. In the last > year or two it has been a low-traffic list. Most every post across it has > either been a cross-post, OR a question! Recheck your archives. Questions are allowed, just not technical questions. Questions like "how to configure X" are a no-no, but questions like "what window managers should I check out" is okay. Overall, I wouldn't say that "most" every post was wrong. Maybe 25% were misguided. In the interests of helping newbies, occasional posts on the order of "the kids are misbehaving" is not constructive. Perhaps the problem is that the name is wrong. In every other set of mailing lists, -newbies is for newbies with questions. Maybe the name -newbies-chat would indicate that the list is for newbies, yet not for questions... -- David Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message