Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 12:42:49 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: dyson@freefall.freebsd.org, craigs@venus.os.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, deasey@netpath.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <9512292042.AA29362@tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199512291618.IAA02715@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Dec 29, 95 08:18:19 am
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According to David Greenman:
>
>
> I'd like to second this notion. The -questions mailing list has become very
> hostile recently to new users, and this is exactly what *should not* happen.
> The -questions mailing list was designed and created specifically for new
> users who have "new user" questions. If you are on this list and have a low
> threshold for these types of questions, please do all of us (and most
> importantly our new users) a favor and either unsubscribe or answer the
> questions politely and with high "new user" tolerance. We have many other
> mailing lists which are not new-user oriented (such as -hackers, -current,
> -bugs, etc) where your energy can be much better spent.
>
> -DG
>
> David Greenman
> Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
>
Well said.
void * soapbox()
{
``Old-timers'' should have patience, certainly, and so
should all the newcomers to this list; to the Project
as a whole. If someone answers my questions brusquely
I consider the source rather than explode. I've
been into uNix going on 20 years--in fact at Berkeley
where this began. But I've been away in System5-land
for so long that the BSD model is a whole new ballgame.
It's quite a (re-)learning curve.
The whole movement is valid: *BSD, Linux, GNU, the Andrew
Project, Project Gutenberg, and vastly more. If the
whole globe got along as well as most of the net does,
most problems would disappear. Maybe after a few hundred
more millennia of evolution... .
Meanwhile, people, remember the hallmarks of cooperation:
patience, tolerance, kindness.
}
gary kline
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