From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 6:43:28 2002 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 E83D137B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565ED43E31 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:43:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g6TDhHt29376; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:43:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200207291343.g6TDhHt29376@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Hi ! would like to start a BSD group in Chennai,India ! To: alganesh@m-net.arbornet.org (Ganesh Kumar) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:43:16 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200207290757.g6T7v7FI054650@m-net.arbornet.org> from "Ganesh Kumar" at Jul 29, 2002 03:57:07 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy > Hi Folks, > I work as FreeBSD admin in a company in chennai,India and would like to > start a group here exclusively for FreeBSD.There are lots of groups exist, > but they are all for Linux. Good. > Initially we have the latest Cds and would like to circulate among friends > and organise meetings on relgular intervals at later stage. You may end up beoing more organized than anything on this side of the water. > I would like to know a few things before that... > > * For the mailing list is it a good idea to start with Yahoogroups ? or > can anyone suggest me a good list ? I think most people/groups who start their own list in the FreeBSD world host the list themselves on their own machine running FreeBSD and using Majordomo. That way you have the greatest amount of discretion and probably the best service. But, make use of resources as you need. > * Will the FreeBSD group point in.freebsd.org to our address at later stage ? > That I can't answer. Maybe someone officially with the FreeBSd page will. ////jerry > > regards > Ganesh Kumar > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message