From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 21:44:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CCF1065670 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:44:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from passiveprofits@yahoo.com) Received: from web35603.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35603.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.142]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF8D68FC1C for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:44:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from passiveprofits@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 47423 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Mar 2008 21:44:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=otYpDuos0sO0pf9Z/vczuvYDxlLvu9C3/jCuuEkb0A8LxjHXFu2/JzPAu42hDnkKb5tsFyqPGgUI2zfvIM/FIYdOT9FNB788QT+ueJuU9OMd/j0c548K0dwhOG2HbDRcQZIg5kffvEOuz+TEbsNtQX5caHrCxavf/EhKukWSU2A=; X-YMail-OSG: 6hpYrmYVM1nKZgRo2571kWaA3ecMMpuWjMVvXpC7AWFFFhOCV5O_r4V9fHkBjWtqqtsVdUs.WwkPjwcJaK1z.dW6XtY07E_1hnnf3KwQuJso4MtwvH4- Received: from [80.46.113.101] by web35603.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:44:25 PDT Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:44:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Passive PROFITS To: Alphons Fonz van Werven In-Reply-To: <47EA6774.2060206@student.utwente.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <203129.47088.qm@web35603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question - about newbie user support X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:44:26 -0000 --- "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" wrote: > Passive PROFITS wrote: > > > The only 'official' list seems to be this: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > That's the one, indeed. > > > But it starts off with the rather intimidating > phrase > > "You should not send "how to" questions to the > > technical lists unless you consider the question > to be > > pretty technical." > > That's a standard remark on an automagically > generated page. It applies to > other, more technical lists involving current > development. > > It's perhaps a bit unfortunate that it appears on > the pages for all FreeBSD > lists, including the ones it doesn't apply to. But > don't let it scare you > off: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (or -questions > for short) is the list you > are looking for. > > See you there, > > Alphons Hi Alphons, Thanks for the confirmation of some sort of welcome over on -questions! At least I made it 12 hours or so on -chat without encountering anything but a small problem. Looking forward to conversing 'over there' with you Alphons ... a.k.a. 'Fonz' in the future? (Let me know!) Best, PP ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ