From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Oct 14 17:36:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13A437B66D; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA17527; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:49:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -newbies In-Reply-To: <39E8E276.929B570F@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > In short, there should be one place, and one place only that is the > starting point for real questions. I concur. I have just lurked on this thread. I don't want take anything away from anyone who wants to contribute to Freebsd in their way. For me personally, -newbies duplicated the work being done on -questions. A single point of contact for the "tech support" needs of the community is a good thing. A place for newbies may be a good thing too. Part of growing out of newbieness is using -questions, even if it means being handled without kid gloves. Perhaps a solution is for Sue Blake to produce a periodic mailing like Greg Lehey's "How to get best results" message. (I love volunteering others to do work :) ) If -newbies does go away, much of the needs of newbies might be met by reminding -questions readers of how to best help _AND_ how to represent FreeBSD. Anyway, my $.02 on the color of the bicycle shed. Thanks, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message