From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 12:46:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA11206 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 12:46:02 -0700 Received: from larry.infi.net (root@larry.infi.net [198.22.1.107]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA11197 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 12:45:58 -0700 Received: from Jessica.RatsNest.VaBeach.VA.US by larry.infi.net with SMTP (8.6.12/Server1.12) id PAA06332; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:46:13 -0400 Message-Id: <199504251946.PAA06332@larry.infi.net> From: "Pavlov's Cat" Organization: Organized? Me? Hah! To: gary@wcs.uq.oz.au Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:09:56 -240 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Newbie mentoring Reply-to: SimsS@infi.net CC: hackers@FreeBSD.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary, As a confirmed "lurker" I am really attracted to your idea about mentoring newbies. Sign me up - I've been looking for an opportunity to give back some of what I've taken from this forum. The only problem I see is that, unlike the hard-core -hackers folks, us lurkers can make FreeBSD do whatever *we* need, but don't have the broad spectrum of knowledge that, say, Terry, has. Take me, fer instance; I can make the net-osity aspect of FreeBSD sing, routing, gated'ing, SLIP & PPP-ing, the whole thing. But 'X-11'? Whazzat? Don't use it, don't care for it, can't afford a 35" monitor to get all the displays I want to run. Who needs it when you got a sh prompt and multiple consoles? (Tongue firmly in cheek, here!) So my point is this - maybe it'd be a good idea if there was some mechanism for passing the buck so an assigned mentor could recognize that the question/issue was out of his/her area of expertise and draw another card. -- ...sjs... Steve Sims (SJS7) SimsS@Infi.Net Systems Engineer, IPC Technologies, Inc. Virginia Beach, VA "Everyone wants to save the Earth; Nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes." ...P.J. O'Roarke