From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 9 14:59:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22781508D for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 14:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA53120; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 14:58:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199910092158.OAA53120@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Roasting Newbies In-Reply-To: <74671.939499135@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 9, 1999 12:58:55 pm" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 14:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org (Michael Lucas), laotzu@juniper.net (Chris Parry), blk@skynet.be, stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think this is a very good effort which is aimed at the true heart of > the problem. Any and every tech support org worth their salt has > already "formalized" the process of having users deal with developers > in a fashion which provides all the relevant information up-front and > I don't see how we can afford to do things any differently now. > > - Jordan > And we have even found a person to lead us down the road: > From mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org Sat Oct 9 11:51:08 1999 > > > I've got a nice shinny cap sitting over here in the corner, the > > new painted words on it say ``Director of Newbie Relations'', > > would you care to dawn it and take the rains? > > Uh, I don't know... is it pointy? I've always wanted my very own > pointy hat. Unfortunately, my code doesn't rate a pointy hat; at > best, it rates pointed fingers and open snickering. > > Sure, what the hell. It can't go any worse than the Sparc port. ;-) You can get pointy hats for things besides code... :-) > > ==ml -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message