Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:10:05 -0800 (PST) From: Mervin McDougall <mcd_advisory@yahoo.com> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to shut down this list? Message-ID: <20041224191005.90328.qmail@web61203.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <41CC656A.6060406@nbritton.org>
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Perhaps the best way to look at this is in a canonical form. The mailing list for newbies can be used as an entry level for all newbie questions and as the questions are scrutinized by more experienced persons in the newbies mailing list they can be directed to other mailing lists if the problem seems too complex to be addressed in the newbies mailing list. I assume further information can be provided to the newbie So newbies would be more like a you are here starting point, and the other mailing lists would be where you need to go to answer all other questions if the are too complex to be answered in newbies. Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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