From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 18 15:23:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26455 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 15:23:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26432 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 15:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11086; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 22:05:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980618220535.60101@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 22:05:35 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Sue Blake , "Michael P. Sale" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lists, newbies & support (was: Re: Where to get Windows Internet stuff/ More on Windows & BSD) References: <01bd9a26$571e9a20$3c06bccc@708644668> <19980618095950.51306@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <19980618095950.51306@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 09:59:50AM +1000 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 09:59:50AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > It's not fun to take care over an answer and find that the same > question is still asked, as if it wasn't worth your trouble answering > in the first place. Tell me about it. Case in point: A few (3 or 4 I think) months ago there was a spate of Year 2000 questions on -questions. Getting bored of wading through these, I put together various bits and pieces and created the FreeBSD Y2K web page where these things are addressed. Once, sometimes twice a day someone comes into -questions and asks "Is FreeBSD Y2K compliant?" (or a variant on that theme). At least now they're generally just given the URL in a one or two line message and it's left at that. But it is disheartening to know that they didn't bother checking the site, the search engine or the mailing list archives first. N -- You are in a maze of twisty signature files all the same. -- You are in a maze of twisty signature files all alike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message