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Subject: Re: Time to shut down this list?
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John Murphy wrote:

>I certainly agree.  The freebsd mailing list search rarely seems to provide
>useful answers and, as the google mailing.freebsd search has disappeared, the
>need to improve it is greater than before.  In the mean time a google search
>of docs.freebsd.org (phrase to search site:docs.freebsd.org) helps.
>  
>
This will fix all your googling problems, bookmark it on your toolbar: 
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?&as_ugroup=*.freebsd.*

>  
>
>If the main fear is that newbie
>answers are sometimes misleading/incorrect then this could be fixed by
>convincing a few of the kind souls who man the questions list to also
>subscribe to this one.
>  
>
This is a good idea, they can use a hands off approach and if a "newbie" 
gives bad advice they can step in and set things strait and also advise 
when questions should be sent to questions.