From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 18 16:47:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08977 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:47:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08968 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from desktop-pentium (dialup640.serv.net [207.207.65.40]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA19129; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980618164630.007ebe30@mx.serv.net> X-Sender: fewtch@mx.serv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:46:30 -0700 To: "Michael P. Sale" , "Sue Blake" From: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Re: Lists, newbies & support (was: Re: Where to get Windows Internet stuff/ More on Windows & BSD) Cc: In-Reply-To: <01bd9a26$571e9a20$3c06bccc@708644668> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just have one thing to say about this: There *IS* a need for a 'newbie-questions@freebsd.org' list. Anyone reading this who can add mailing lists to freebsd.org, please give this some serious thought. Newbies are generally those who are in their first few weeks or months of learning BSD. Do the folks in freebsd-questions REALLY want to answer a question like 'I pressed Ctrl-K in ee and it messed up my text. Is there any way to get it back?' or 'How do I make my sound card work under FreeBSD'? Reasonable questions for raw newbies who haven't learned to rtfm yet, and that deserve either a reply to a direct link to an appropriate manual section, or an answer. Sure, RTFM is the most important lesson for a newbie to learn, but at least a little extra niceness might be presented if answered from a newbies list, rather than "You moron, go read the manual or shut the f*$&#($ up and quit spamming our list." At 12:30 PM 6/17/98 -0700, Michael P. Sale wrote: >Again, I really like the list the way it is and have said so more than once. >The issue for me is not your managing the list, but the need for another >list for newbie questions. -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message