From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Oct 14 15:47:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA69637B503; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA81098; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:47:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39E8E276.929B570F@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:47:18 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-101 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: That Guy Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -newbies References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That Guy wrote: > > In my experience at using FreeBSD, I've come to the conclusion that certain > questions are so stupid (ie my own) that they need their own listserv. No, they really don't. We have made huge progress during the last two years at making -questions a "kindler, gentler" place to ask even the most mundane question. And even though there are still the occasional boneheads, it is actually doing quite well, _especially_ considering the vast expansion of the freebsd userbase during the same period. In short, there should be one place, and one place only that is the starting point for real questions. The meta-questions like, "I need to ask about hooping my frobnitz, but I'm not sure which list is the right one to ask on" are still on topic for -newbies, even though that question could really be asked on -questions too. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message