Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:16:01 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302020038.27741A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980302103201.36237@shale.csir.co.za>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Jeremy Lea wrote: > Now for the real reason I wanted to reply... While reading this thread the > idea of a newbie brag list entered my mind... > > How about making the list one where newbies are encouraged to share their > success stories with the community. Messages like "hey, I managed to get my > Deskjet working...", "Finally got that procmail filter up and running...", > and other tasks which most old hands would do in ten seconds. Then someone > with a bit more experience might respond by saying "If you do such and such > it'll work quicker...", but more importantly others will start asking you > questions about all sorts of related topics... There's nothing more > encouraging when you are starting out than to think you're clever and ahead > of the pack, and to have some "newbie" think you are a guru ;)... Aha, a newbie-"brag'n bitch" list! Perfect. Y'know when I got into this stuff I just knew a few unix commands that I'd learned from Kroll's Whole Internet book, and it was a little confusing because you couldn't tell if the 1's were l's or vice versa. Not a good t ype face. I'd been reading the newsgroup but when an answer said "man cron" I didn't know what that meant. I knew there were these things called man pages, but I didn't know how to read them. And isn't that just too damn bad. :( :( :(( AA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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