From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 20 19: 9:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (apana.internode.on.net [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3127537B4EC; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:09:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (bra@dialup-7.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.136]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07458; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:39:16 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Greg Lehey , "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Hello from russia! Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:28:29 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au, hamellr@heorot.1nova.com, Joe.Warner@smed.com, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG, "newbies" References: <065701c092dc$a322c840$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010219030824.136F637B4EC@hub.freebsd.org> <20010219215742.D21460@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010219215742.D21460@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0102211335520A.00803@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 18 February 2001 at 19:08:24 -0800, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > >> Welcome to FreeBSD! > >> This list is a gathering place for people new to FreeBSD. > >> Please feel free to share your experiences with others on this list. I think THIS is part of the problem - WHAT "experiences"? "Personal experiences" would be better, but not a complete description. > >> Support questions should be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> (NOT to the newbies list please) This is another problem. What is a "support question"? "Technical questions" might be better. However, problems with wording would be completely solved with a simple name change to -newbiechat or similar. I cannot understand why a name change presents such a problem. Could we at least be given an explanation? -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message