From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Feb 4 18:43:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D8637B69F for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:43:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8D36D6A90D; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:12:59 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:12:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: ML Duke Cc: Stefan KORONKA , freebad , 'faisal' Subject: Re: the right mailing list Message-ID: <20010205131259.F462@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mlduke@concentric.net on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:50:19AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 4 February 2001 at 8:50:19 -0700, ML Duke wrote: > >>> I think i am in the wrong list can you tell me which mailing list >>> to subscribe ? i am new to freebsd have installed FreeBSD 4.0 in >>> my 1386 machine now i want to ask technical questions help me out >>> please >> > You want: > questions@freebsd.org > > Suggestion: > Do your homework. Read the areas of the handbook related to your question > (you'll likely find it in /usr/share/doc) and read the FAQ as well. > After these have failed you, _then_ ask your technical question. > You'll also find good information when you follow the suggestions in > the "First Aid Kit" as repeatedly shows up on this list. > > Second suggestion: > If you should get flamed on questions, ignore it and keep on 'truckin. Another suggestion: before posting to FreeBSD-questions, read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. This will both reduce the likelihood of being flamed and increase the likelihood of getting a useful answer. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message