From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 1 10:04:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17413 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:04:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polymorph.qcsn.com (root@polymorph.qcsn.com [207.149.233.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17400; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:04:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@qcsn.com) Received: from greymouser.circle-path.org (ami-chan.circle-path.org [207.149.233.16]) by polymorph.qcsn.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA19246; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:14:18 -0800 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:06:48 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bouncing Email (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199804011756.JAA15654@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@mail.qcsn.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Thankyou, I was simply trying to simplify the process for people > > on this list, as it is Freebsd-NEWBIES, not freebsd-yearsofexperience. > > Perhaps I should have said, 'sending E-mail tends to be resource > > intensive' I'm not blaming Sendmail for anything, it's a great piece of > > software, though I understand even the author of it needs to rely on third > > party referances as to how it works, because of how complicated the > > program is. > > one step in moving from NEWBIES to yearsofexperience > (as opposed to continualy repeating first year) > is taking responsibility for one's own machine and > one's own software configuration.....its a whole new > world to those coming from "blue screen of death" > and "reboot please". And perhaps another step would be the process of learning how to do all this, or simply learning that it CAN be done. Once that process is complete, or half complete, then you can talk to the system administrator about taking such actions. After all, a user does not usually have access to reconfigure UNIX machines of any flavor, beyond their own login shell. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message