From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 29 2:35:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7154E15049 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 02:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.212]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990829093813.VPFN3442178.mta1-rme@wocker>; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:38:13 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Young" Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:33:34 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program - Thanks Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: In-reply-to: <014c01bef1fe$0369b8c0$857e03cb@jdy> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: <19990829093813.VPFN3442178.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 Aug 99, at 19:08, Young wrote: > Well there certainly haven't been any alternatives so far .... but I'm > hoping there are enough newbies out there who are prepared to form a group > dedicated to producing some really explicit & newbie-friendly docs for > stuff that causes so much grief .... I mean the likes of really basic > commands (including the switches that are needed commonly rather than those > that just take up space in the MAN), ppp setup, routing, and whatever else > the group deems worthy of special attention. What you are saying has been proposed before. To date, and to my knowledge, nobody has followed through on it. Go for it. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsdiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm unix @ home - http://www.unixathome.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message