From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 22:44:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA14199 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 22:44:03 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA14191 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 22:43:59 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id GAA09808; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 06:38:14 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199504250538.GAA09808@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: jmb@kryten.atinc.com (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 06:38:14 +0100 (BST) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, gary@wcs.uq.oz.au, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Apr 24, 95 11:41:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1893 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jonathan M. Bresler who said > > Gary, > great idea! we can add a couple of commands to majordomo and let > it rip. Hey, this is getting interesting :-) > > command action > ------------------------------- > subscribe mentors register yourself as a person willing to adopt > new users of FreeBSD > unsubscribe mentors --ahhhhh....no more please. > adopt iamlost@where.am.i adopt this poor soul, all his mail to > hackers and others gets routed to you! > what about questions (or is this just crazy?) > disown iamlost@where.am.i he has learned enough not to ask the > 3c509 -link2 flag question. let him have direct > access to the lists again. > subscribe newusers help me please, i just got my cdrom and i cant > get my 3c509 to work > unsubscribe newusers hey man--back off, i know this thing, give me some > elbow room here. If we pick up some of Jordan's ideas about queing the newuser requests so that they don't get dropped then this would be quite a neat support setup -- assuming of course we get enough mentors to make it functional. Rather than using questions or hackers use the newuser list. So, newuser subscribes to newuser list because he needs help. One of the mentors adopts him and then all further mail the newbie sends to newusers gets redirected to his mentor. When newbie feels consident enough he unsubscribes from newuser and if mentor feels it's time to break away he can disown. If a newuser is disowned they should probably go back on the queue so another mentor can pick them up. I don't think it needs to affect our current lists at all, this would be a separate service. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.