Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:03:33 -0500 From: Jim Durham <jimd@nepinc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "list@mindling.com" <list@mindling.com> Subject: Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup? Message-ID: <200501171403.33603.jimd@nepinc.com> In-Reply-To: <41E979F5.3020000@mindling.com> References: <200501151147.54192.durham@jcdurham.com> <41E979F5.3020000@mindling.com>
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On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:15 pm, list@mindling.com wrote: > Jim Durham wrote: > > I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running > > Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about > > 8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more. > > <...> > > > I was wondering if there is any mailing list or newsgroup devoted to IT > > on FreeBSD? Google is not returning any hits on this, nor the listing on > > freebsd.org. > > I'm not really understanding the distinction that you're looking for. > For FreeBSD-specific technical discussions, this is the place. > Applications of course have their own lists, which are obviously more > appropriate for application-specific questions. I guess I would have to say that the niche I am talking about is supporting applications of a corporate/business nature on FreeBSD. > > For broader discussions, perhaps regarding best practices in system > administration, commercial backup recommendations, etc, I find SAGE (the > System Administrators Guild) to be an extremely valuable resource. The > community seems roughly split between the educational and corporate > sectors, with a very high level of signal. The topics covered on the > SAGE mailing list are of high relevance to the profession and practices > of system administrators, especially for someone with a network such as > yours. > > http://www.sage.org > Good suggestion. I will check that out. Thanks! -Jim
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