From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 20 23:39:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08527 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:39:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08519 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 06:39:50 GMT (envelope-from perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07933; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 01:40:42 GMT Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 01:40:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Bruce Albrecht cc: Sue Blake , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRC - #freebsd-newbies invasion? In-Reply-To: <199804210452.XAA09995@zuhause.mn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG #freebsd on EFnet is loaded with newbies, no need for a channel imo. -Alfred On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > > Some newbies are talking about where we should start a #freebsd-newbies IRC > > channel, and among other options the FreeBSD IRC server came up. > Who is going to sit in the #FreeBSD-newbies channel and answer questions? > There are a number of #FreeBSD regulars that have limited patience for > brain-dead newbies, and so they're not going to be interested in hanging > around in #FreeBSD-newbies. We certainly don't need another channel filled > with the clueless moaning about how badly FreeBSD sucks and that you can't > get any help because nobody knows anything about FreeBSD on the channel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message