From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 24 15:10:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12567 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12401 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27096; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:04:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980624230403.42937@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:04:03 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Tim Gerchmez , David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies - "Handle me with care?" References: <199806221826.LAA29227@pau-amma.whistle.com> <3.0.5.32.19980623182539.007faa50@mx.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980623182539.007faa50@mx.serv.net>; from Tim Gerchmez on Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 06:25:39PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 06:25:39PM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > Sure, but a newbie won't likely be doing anything terribly important with > their system and won't likely be installing BSD for others who need solid > systems... so why be methodical? Because if that newbie runs into problems (can't start ppp, has disklabel trashed, removes something important from /usr/lib, or whatever) and mails to -questions asking for help, they're far more likely to get useful help if they reliably tell others what they did. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message