From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 01:27:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E41C16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.wp.pl (smtp.wp.pl [212.77.101.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370A043D2D for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:27:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krsr@wp.pl) Received: (wp-smtpd mta-1 4723 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2004 03:27:29 +0200 Received: from host-212-127-71-147.osiedla.net (HELO [10.2.0.78]) (krsr@[212.127.71.147]) (envelope-sender ) by mta-1 (wp-smtpd) with SMTP for ; 23 Jun 2004 03:27:29 +0200 From: Krzysztof Sroka To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 03:29:57 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040622094511.44cbae6f.metaridley@mchsi.com> <20040622190307.0420979d.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20040622190307.0420979d.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406230329.58333.krsr@wp.pl> X-AntiVirus: skaner antywirusowy poczty Wirtualnej Polski S. A. [wersja 2.0c] X-WP-AntySpam-Rezultat: NIE-SPAM Subject: Re: New and Fearful X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:27:36 -0000 On Tuesday 22 of June 2004 23:03, Randy Pratt wrote: > I really don't think anyone will chew you out. That's just > unacceptable behaviour for a FreeBSD mailing list. It very rarely > happens. Most folks are willing to help in polite manner and > I don't think you have anything to fear there. I've seen them > called the friendliest, most helpful community that people have > encountered. I've got to admit that. When I was beginning my adventure with FreeBSD I already knew that most popular acronyms among Linux users were 'RTFM' and 'STFW'. And after joining this mailing list and subscribing to some *bsd usenet groups I was really stunned that people didn't treat newbies the same way! Even if a new user is pointed to a section in a handbook it is done with an explanation, without some sort of rudeness that you can meet when you ask the same thing on Linux groups. This really helps to understand how to use BSD systems, how to deal with encountered problems and so on. Chris