From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 11:06:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D13516A4CF for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:06:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0364A43D1D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:06:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:07:27 -0600 Message-ID: <405F394D.8090703@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:06:53 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040322 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David References: <1079648282.405a201a64217@savaka.com> <20040319180535.P379@floyd.gnulife.org> <20040319192953.Q535@floyd.gnulife.org> <200403221040.12046.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200403221040.12046.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Mar 2004 19:07:28.0062 (UTC) FILETIME=[EB0C4DE0:01C41040] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-newbies group is a compromise community. X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:06:56 -0000 Johnson David wrote: >No one deserves snide remarks. A simple "this is the wrong list" should >suffice. > >David > > Most probably true. Can't agree with that 100 per cent of the time, tho; 99.98% perhaps. Once in a great while someone is so out of line that ya just gotta say "get out of town." Perhaps it shouldn't be snide exactly, but what about the troll who won't quit? But, that'll never happen on newbies@, most likely. Finally, is this something we might agree on? Technical questions aren't permitted, but "your experiences" are.... Newbie A: "I'm having trouble with foomatic..." Newbie B: "I had trouble with foomatic, but by changing the $bar variable in my $file, I was able to overcome this difficulty." Newbie C: "And the other possibility is that you forgot to read /usr/share/doc/foomatic/README, which reminds us that you must first have bazalooza(1) installed in order for foomatic(1) to work. That's what bit me when I first tried it. Of course, if that doesn't work, you should write to questions@...." Newbie A: "Cool. Thanks guys!" :-) Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.