From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 26 15:42:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA29698 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 15:42:52 -0700 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA29692 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 15:42:48 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) id QAA19249; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 16:47:01 -0600 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 16:47:01 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199504262247.QAA19249@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: bsinger@databank.com (Smooch) "Re: The Mentors' Club" (Apr 26, 5:39pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: bsinger@databank.com (Smooch), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The Mentors' Club Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > * Newbie sends mail to {newbie,help}@freebsd.org, > * which is distributed to a mailing list newbie-q@freebsd.org, > * which is read by someone who knows something about the topic, who replies. Unfortunately, this is how it's supposed to work now, but w/out any accountability it doesn't work since folks assume that another person is going to answer the question. And, once one person starts answering questions then the group assumes those questions will always be answered by that person since said person is considered an expert. By doing the one-one talked about here, we get more experts and the end-user gets better service, if sometimes a bit slower. Nate > After getting a response, Newbie should write directly to the mentor, > and not help@freebsd. Unfortunately this is something that can't be enforced. Nate