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Date:      Sun, 3 Jul 2016 19:29:56 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r49034 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects
Message-ID:  <201607031929.u63JTuVD002987@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: brd
Date: Sun Jul  3 19:29:56 2016
New Revision: 49034
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49034

Log:
  Remove the section linking to the newsgroup, to stop pointing new users
  away from our support resources.
  
  Reviewed by:	gjb

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml	Sun Jul  3 19:27:03 2016	(r49033)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml	Sun Jul  3 19:29:56 2016	(r49034)
@@ -91,15 +91,6 @@
 	href="&base;/search/search.html#mailinglists">search</a>
 	page.</p></li>
 
-      <li><p>The main newsgroup for &os; is <a
-	  href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc</a>.
-	General UNIX questions are dealt with in the newsgroup <a
-	  href="news:comp.unix.questions">comp.unix.questions</a> and
-	the associated <a
-	  href="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/unix-faq/faq/">FAQ</a>;
-	from the RMIT FTP site. Newbies are likely to be most
-	interested in sections 1 and 2 initially.</p></li>
-
       <li><p><a href="&cgibase;/man.cgi">Manual pages</a> are good for
 	reference but not always the best introduction for a novice.
 	The more you work with man pages the more familiar they



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