From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 23:13:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021DE16A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:13:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wolf.bytecraft.au.com (wolf.bytecraft.au.com [203.39.118.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53B843D39 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:13:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])j0GNCxHV082201; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:12:59 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from wolf.bytecraft.au.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wolf.bytecraft.au.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 81798-06; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:12:58 +1100 (EST) Received: from svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com ([10.0.0.4])j0GNCt7v082183; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:12:56 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from svmailmel.bytecraft.internal (Not Verified[10.0.0.24]) by svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com with MailMarshal (v5,0,3,78) id ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:12:55 +1100 Received: from [10.0.17.42] ([10.0.17.42]) by svmailmel.bytecraft.internal with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:12:54 +1100 From: Murray Taylor To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <41E95D13.30605@mac.com> References: <200501151147.54192.durham@jcdurham.com> <41E95D13.30605@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Bytecraft Systems Message-Id: <1105917174.6683.742.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:12:54 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jan 2005 23:12:54.0964 (UTC) FILETIME=[E8E43740:01C4FC20] cc: Jim Durham cc: freebsdquestions Subject: Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mtaylor@bytecraft.com.au List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:13:04 -0000 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. 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