Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:12:54 +1100 From: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraft.com.au> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsdquestions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup? Message-ID: <1105917174.6683.742.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> In-Reply-To: <41E95D13.30605@mac.com> References: <200501151147.54192.durham@jcdurham.com> <41E95D13.30605@mac.com>
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On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 05:12, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Jim Durham wrote: > > I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running > > Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 > > servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. > > OK. > > > Freebsd-questions is wonderful and I find a lot of answers there, but the > > signal-to-noise is low when you are just looking for IT-oriented information > > regarding FreeBSD. Especially regarding systems implemented for an office/LAN > > environment. > > > > I was wondering if there is any mailing list or newsgroup devoted to IT on > > FreeBSD? Google is not returning any hits on this, nor the listing on > > freebsd.org. > > Your question parses, but it is not clear what specific thing you have in mind > that would seperate an IT-oriented list from a non-IT oriented list. Can you > either give an example question or two, or can you say why freebsd-questions > is *not* IT-oriented? > > Or does your question mean you looking for a list whose members are mostly > sysadmins and network managers, rather than end-users? FreeBSD doesn't really > make much distinction between an end-user and a sysadmin [1], but you might > find freebsd-stable or freebsd-isp to come closer to what you are looking for. > > -- > -Chuck > > [1]: Which can be benefit sometimes, or it can be a problem, especially for > novice users, but that's another topic. I agree the the S/N ratio is [a] variable [b] generally high ... However I also find that for a specific question posed by oneself, the S/N ratio improves a lot with directed answers generally being quite useful. Admittedly, sometimes they can be 'short and succinct' (read terse), especially if it is a common question for which the answer could have been filtered out of the preceeding 'noise'. cheers mjt -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 M: +61 417 319 256 E: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- ***This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal.***
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