From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 15:55:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA22896 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:55:10 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA22890 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:55:05 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id SAA04054; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:50:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:50:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Newbie mentoring To: SimsS@infi.net cc: gary@wcs.uq.oz.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504251946.PAA06332@larry.infi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, Pavlov's Cat wrote: > 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. [snip] > 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. > there will be such a method. just 'disown newbie@who.am.i' both you and the newbie get a confirmation. just another part of the new all-singing all-dancing newbie support package. (wait till you see the 'require backrub' virtual support daemon that is in the works) Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346