From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 10 0:31:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1069215BEF for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 00:31:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA09574; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:31:23 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19990510173120.51446@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:31:20 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: "Brett G. Castleberry" Cc: rick hamell , otter@tig.com.au, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD-Questions phobia [was: Very basic questions...] References: <3.0.5.32.19990510111738.007b0150@pop.tig.com.au> <19990510124727.42190@welearn.com.au> <004201be9aab$2bf7d560$af23c992@s1o3q0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <004201be9aab$2bf7d560$af23c992@s1o3q0>; from Brett G. Castleberry on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:05:56AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:05:56AM -0400, Brett G. Castleberry wrote: > FreeBSD. As a really new newbie, I was glad to find a site just for us. > But as a newbie, most of what I have to say is questions. Sometimes I want > to know about something and I think, "It's a question, so I ought to post it > to 'questions', but I 'll sound like an idiot there. And I can't post it to > 'newbies' because they don't want questions." In that case you post to -questions, and if anyone dares laugh at you I'll have my attack-trained budgerigar drop its little presents all over their keyboard! (You gotta see what he does to believe it, ugh!) Do give freebsd-questions a go. We are no less eligible for the best support available than any other members of the community, whatever our needs are. As long as you show that you've made a reasonable effort to help yourself, and provide sufficient information for someone to give you an answer, nobody cares how beginnerish the question is, seriously! You know, there's people who hang out in freebsd-questions for weeks, just waiting for a question that's easy enough for them to answer. You might be in that situation yourself soon, so don't be selfish, share your questions on the -questions list while they're easy ones! :-) Oh occasionally there's a dork, as there is in every large group, but if you ever do get a hard time at least you can come back here and let off steam about it with us because, *because* we don't do support on this list. We're (theoretically) all only newbies here and if you're feeling a bit upset about how non-newbies react it's kinda nice to be able to thrash things out away from the inspection of the helpers (including those who might happily help you next time round). -- Regards, -*Sue*- (` () '` <-- a +3 uncursed budgerigar named Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message