From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 21 19:04:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17950 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:04:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA17786 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 02:04:16 GMT (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (kaput@aeiusrD-23.aei.ca [206.186.204.173]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA17083; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:03:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <353D4FFD.3FCEFD92@aei.ca> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:03:41 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein CC: Bruce Albrecht , Sue Blake , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRC - #freebsd-newbies invasion? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > #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 Well, we will think to what you say. I think than some not absolute brain-dead newbies can help to start. Not very technical question, but more like "how to log" And a corner for newbie. its a community no? What do you think? Malartre -- -------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5 -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message