Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:40:29 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: www/80301: Remove references to (defunct) freebsd-newbies list Message-ID: <200504241340.j3ODeTjj065760@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200504241350.j3ODoIPi070273@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 80301 >Category: www >Synopsis: Remove references to (defunct) freebsd-newbies list >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-www >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Apr 24 13:50:18 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: David Wolfskill >Release: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE i386 >Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling Residence >Environment: FreeBSD g1-18.catwhisker.org. 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #493: Sat Apr 23 07:42:59 PDT 2005 root@g1-18.catwhisker.org.:/common/S2/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP_30W i386 Actually, the above is irrelevant. >Description: The page at <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL> refers the reader to the freebsd-newbies mailing list. A couple of weeks ago, core@ sent word to postmaster@freebsd.org (that would be me) informing me that core@ had decided that the list was no longer to be used. Accordingly, no messages have been sent to it for the last 2 weeks, and I have rejected all requests to subscribe to it in that time (directing folks to use the freebsd-questions list instead, of course). I think the time has come to update the Web page to remove the "attractive nuisance." >How-To-Repeat: Direct a Web browser of choice to <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL> and look for information about available mailing lists at FreeBSD.org; in particular, note that freebsd-newbies is listed. Given the above-cited decision and treatment of the list, this should not be the case. >Fix: Here you go. I didn't check anywhere other than en_US.ISO8859-1, though: Index: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.166 diff -u -r1.166 chapter.sgml --- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml 24 Mar 2005 11:56:40 -0000 1.166 +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml 24 Apr 2005 13:28:29 -0000 @@ -127,11 +127,6 @@ </row> <row> - <entry>&a.newbies.name;</entry> - <entry>New FreeBSD users activities and discussions</entry> - </row> - - <row> <entry>&a.policy.name;</entry> <entry>FreeBSD Core team policy decisions. Low volume, and read-only</entry> @@ -1101,25 +1096,6 @@ </varlistentry> <varlistentry> - <term>&a.newbies.name;</term> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis>Newbies activities discussion</emphasis></para> - - <para>We cover any of the activities of newbies that are not - already dealt with elsewhere, including: independent learning - and problem solving techniques, finding and using resources and - asking for help elsewhere, how to use mailing lists and which - lists to use, general chat, making mistakes, boasting, sharing - ideas, stories, moral (but not technical) support, and taking an - active part in the FreeBSD community. We take our problems and - support questions to freebsd-questions, and use freebsd-newbies - to meet others who are doing the same things that we do as - newbies.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> <term>&a.openoffice.name;</term> <listitem> >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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