From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Oct 14 23:41:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.ovis.net (ns1.ovis.net [207.0.147.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CE737B502 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ovis.net (s1.pm5.ovis.net [207.0.147.68]) by ns1.ovis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA19366; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 02:39:56 -0400 Message-ID: <39E9538E.2D50D526@ovis.net> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 02:49:50 -0400 From: Steve Kudlak Reply-To: chromexa@ovis.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD ezn/58/n (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake Cc: Rick Hamell , Joe Warner , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies web page [was: -newbies] References: <39E86BC9.4FA97AC1@uswest.net> <20001015034050.E2537@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > (First, I'd like to request that freebsd-chat be removed from the > headers of replies. This is a freebsd-newbies discussion, and newbies > might not realise that posting to several lists at once is generally > discouraged. FreeBSD-chat is mostly for non-FreeBSD chat that spills > over from the technical lists where it becomes off topic there.) > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:52:00AM +0000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > (and someone else wrote...) > > > > > Maybe it would help if Sue's "FreeBSD Newbies First Aid Kit" was > > > posted more often? > > When you join -newbies you get a brief run-down, and then the FAK > is posted once a week. What do you want, daily? > > > Yes, we also should try to get the -newbies Web Page updated... > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies. > > All you need to do is send me ideas for change, and it'll be done. > I've mentioned this to newbies over and over. Nobody has ever done so!! > > We do need to have a central starting point for newbies on the FreeBSD > web site. While I've received many notes of appreciation, the support > for this, in terms of contributions suggestions or ideas, has been > consistently underwhelming. > > You guys have to learn that you are not consumers. You get what you > want by collaborating on it and then getting up and _doing_ it, or > at least helping out those who are already doing stuff. > This is the real world. You don't have no Mummy round no more. > Live with it. Learn to thrive on it. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message Am I getting wrid in my old, well early middle age. :) It seems that of all the *NIX mailing lists these arethe most wellbehaved. I certainly get a lot out of themby mainlylurking. I, and this is me personallly speaking, have seen less hram and rancor and more and more rules than I have seen other groups. I am certainly not a full blown BSD newbie, having been in the university system. But signal to noise is good here. Why mess withsucesss. Have fun, Sends Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message