From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 20:48:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA05074 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:48:37 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA05067 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:48:33 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id UAA10515; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:47:59 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504260347.UAA10515@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: The Mentors' Club (was Re: Gating hackers ... ) To: gary@wcs.uq.oz.au (Gary Roberts) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Cc: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504260338.AA19329@wcs.uq.edu.au> from "Gary Roberts" at Apr 26, 95 01:38:34 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 524 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > if the newbie is too easily bounced on to a new mentor. Wouldn't it be > better for the mentor to ask (say on the mentors list) and see if anyone > can give him a quick pointer to the answer. That way the newbie retains > his one to one relationship, *and* his confidence in his mentor. Maybe And the mentor might learn something too :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'