From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 22:19:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA07045 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 22:19:28 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA07039 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 22:19:25 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA01243; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 22:16:38 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504260516.WAA01243@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: The Mentors' Club (was Re: Gating hackers ... ) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 22:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504260347.UAA10515@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 25, 95 08:47:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1433 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 :-) And the list for the mentor to ask this on already exists, and is full of excelent tallent. It is this list, hackers!! We are going way way over board on pie in the sky stuff folks. IMHO, all's that needs to be done is a way for a newbie to get a mentor, I have done this in the past for several people, and after I get them rolling on there way I point them off into the great masses of hackers and questions when they start to ask things that make since to be asked, or when I don't have an answer for them. We don't need a bazzilion lists, and a fancy match maker system, we just need a list of mentors (growing by the second from the sounds of things) and a place for a newbie to ask to get paired up! >From the mail volume alone this idea has created almost has me wanting to drop off the lists, could we stop engineering this to death until Gary puts what he has in him mind togeather and we see how it flies. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD