From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 27 21:13:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00971 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:13:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00960 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (kaput@aeiusrF-31.aei.ca [206.186.205.31]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA17672; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:12:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <351C85EC.E2B74CB3@aei.ca> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:09:00 -0500 From: KapuT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Ostrowsky CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rant: What are we? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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