Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 01:05:05 +0100 From: Ian J Hart <ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> To: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Roasting Newbies Message-ID: <37FE86B1.948CE7FA@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> References: <199910071840.OAA25123@blackhelicopters.org>
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Thought for the day: From little Newbies do mighty Gurus grow. Some positive stuff on the list for a change; about time. What I cannot understand is why anyone is suprised that stable recieves _inappropriate_ mail. If you track stable you are _REQUIRED_ to subscribe to _THIS_ mailing list. (Yes I am shouting, sorry). My understanding of human nature says this is where any questions are going to get posted. Perhaps something (less dry) in the subscription acknowledgement might help. Justin Wolf is right on track. Ask yourself, why is Linux getting such a lot of press? It's reached critical mass in terms of number of users, thats why. FreeBSD can be the best O/S ever, but if people (aka. Newbies) don't use it, it may not survive. If you/we are going to provide basic help for newbies (myself included), it needs to be friendlier than man. HTML or even info would be better (IMHO). It might also be worth aliasing "help". Before you all run away screaming, I'm suggesting that a level of indirection is useful. This week help might mean man newbie. Next week it could mean info newbie, or whatever. Keeping the user inferface the same is _a_good_thing_. A Friday night Saturday morning ian j hart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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