From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 24 06:47:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08737 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (root@dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08721 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@direct-source.com) Received: from direct-source.com.direct-source.com (ppp75.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.75]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA18229; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:30:27 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: David Marsh cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD Newbies FAK In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@direct-source.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > So I'm wondering if -questions really is different in this case? > Do people not mind emailing answers directly to NON-subscribing > questioners? On most other lists that would be considered rude. It is, -questions can be sent E-mail from any number of locations on the www.cdrom.com webpage, and www.freebsd.org, in regards to any technical support questions a user may have. It's different then other mailing lists because it's really the 'only' technical support FreeBSD really has. > Which comes back to my point that with -questions being very very busy, > and -newbies being very very quiet, I'd just like to politely suggest > that maybe we should be able to ask at least some of the more > 'low level' questions here? -newbies was/is meant to be a 'chatter' group for those of us new to FreeBSD. There was Tim whathisname telling us all about his trials and triumphs about installing FreeBSD. There has been some misc chatter over the last few months I've been subscribed. The only problem with changing this list to be a 'low level tech support' is how would it be enforced? How would a person know if their question is a newbie question or a more advanced question? That is why -questions really exists, as a gateway to all the other groups, -hardware, -alpha, etc. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message