From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 10 12: 7:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hnet04.kellyhendrix.com (unknown [208.233.247.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA0537B69D for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 12:07:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by hnet04.kellyhendrix.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DAC2218C8B; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:08:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:08:04 -0500 From: Kelly Hendrix To: rootman Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , Sue Blake , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello from russia! Message-ID: <20010210150804.A8172@hnet04.kellyhendrix.com> Reply-To: Kelly Hendrix References: <003901c0935a$fa120ac0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <01021007591201.00251@blackmirror.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01021007591201.00251@blackmirror.xmission.com>; from rootman@xmission.com on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 07:05:59AM -0700 X-Freebsd-Version: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings > A while back, I asked if it could be sent out more often, thinking > that it would be received/read by those who had just subscribed > to the list and might keep them from asking technical questions. > However, most people thought this was a ludicrous request and > wouldn't help change things at all. I was just trying to throw some > ideas out there but I agree now that it wasn't a good one. I should > have stuck with my early gut feeling that a name change would be > more helpful. Perhaps this email could be sent out to all new subscribers, along with the welcome message everyone gets. Not saying this will completely eliminate all technical questions, but it might give pause to many of the people who subscribed thinking this is the correct place for newcomers to FreeBSD to ask questions. Kelly -- ______________________________________________________________________ | There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a | | miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. | | | | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | |______________________________________________________________________| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message