From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Mar 28 23:03:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13516 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 23:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13360 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 23:03:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA28561; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:33:18 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA22881; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:33:17 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980329163317.21928@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:33:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "John M. Purser" , "Newbies (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Confusion and Progress References: <01BD5A12.DC3C6A60.jpurser@wilcofarmers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <01BD5A12.DC3C6A60.jpurser@wilcofarmers.com>; from John M. Purser on Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 06:29:25AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 28 March 1998 at 6:29:25 -0800, John M. Purser wrote: > Okay folks, > > Apparently there's something else that doesn't work the way I expect about > FreeBSD. I'm not particularly complaining, just trying to feel my way around > here. > > So "Newbies" is not where newbies are supposed to go in order to learn enough > to not be newbies any more. > > Okay. > > We're supposed to chat about our experiences. > > Okay. > > Does anyone know how I'm supposed to get experiences to chat about if I don't > know enough to get any use out of my FreeBSD system? > > I have managed to make a PPP connection to my ISP. I can't do anything with it > but I connected. Thanks. You make my point exactly. This is exactly the question that I mentioned in my (far too long) message yesterday about why you should send this message to -questions. It's a FAQ, it gets answered twice a week on -questions--in fact, I just answered one of them there about 10 minutes ago. Why should we repeat the questions on -newbies? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message