From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 20:12:35 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 6467016A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:12:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from b.mail.sonic.net (b.mail.sonic.net [64.142.19.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F50743D2F for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:12:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list@mindling.com) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (adsl-64-142-39-120.sonic.net [64.142.39.120] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by b.mail.sonic.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0FKCYVi009824 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:12:35 -0800 Message-ID: <41E979F5.3020000@mindling.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:15:49 -0800 From: "list@mindling.com" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200501151147.54192.durham@jcdurham.com> In-Reply-To: <200501151147.54192.durham@jcdurham.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:12:35 -0000 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. <...> > 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. I'm not really understanding the distinction that you're looking for. For FreeBSD-specific technical discussions, this is the place. Applications of course have their own lists, which are obviously more appropriate for application-specific questions. For broader discussions, perhaps regarding best practices in system administration, commercial backup recommendations, etc, I find SAGE (the System Administrators Guild) to be an extremely valuable resource. The community seems roughly split between the educational and corporate sectors, with a very high level of signal. The topics covered on the SAGE mailing list are of high relevance to the profession and practices of system administrators, especially for someone with a network such as yours. http://www.sage.org Cheers, Sebastian