Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:09:00 -0500 From: KapuT <malartre@aei.ca> To: Ben Ostrowsky <sylvar@afn.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rant: What are we? Message-ID: <351C85EC.E2B74CB3@aei.ca> References: <Pine.A32.3.95.980327235507.179993A-100000@freenet2.afn.org>
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Ben Ostrowsky wrote: > > As it turns out, that decision has been good for everyone. > > Please speak for yourself, Sue. I'm one of a dozen people who have > expressed their interest in newbie questions, and there are probably > several dozen subscribers who have not yet told you of their interest. > Hum, you dont understand: FreeBSD-Question is for question. Any. > This decision has been bad for me. I enjoy the chatter, but I would > prefer that the list welcome ANY SUBJECT OF INTEREST TO NEWBIES. > > > division. We don't need that! > > It comes with the territory, unless you're planning on making the list > strictly moderated by approval, or even announce-only. > If we start to ask newbie-like question here, we will have newbie answers...not so good :-) > > If this list cannot be permitted to give newbies the free space to work out > > what they want to do for the community without interference, where we can > > make our own unhurried decisions, make a few mistakes along the way, and > > learn, then I wonder what the hell can. > > Bravo, and well said. You've just explained why we newbies should be > doing what they want to do without interference, which includes asking > and answering newbie-type questions, and chatting about list policy. > > Ben > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message Cya KapuT Its dark! -- *************************** malartre@aei.ca FreeBSD 4 Newbies project www.aei.ca/~malartre/newbies.html ICQ #4224434 IRCNet #quebec #wage #mid Undernet #FreeBSD Windows95 Unix FreeBSD-2.2.6 *************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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