From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 2 07:12:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25478 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 07:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25442 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 07:11:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-152.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.152]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA101652; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:11:40 GMT Message-ID: <34FACBAF.64F22764@ibm.net> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 07:09:35 -0800 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list References: <19980301105650.47895@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Sue - Many of us were newbies recently enough to _still_ consider ourselves in that group. I enjoy answering questions I understand [ somewhat ;\ ], and I get a lot of good stuff from the -questions list, but I wouldn't sign up for YAML. I think the key is to not be embarrassed to ask anything. If you'll check back in your recent core memory, I think you'll find that the only ones who've gotten battery acid replies were the dinks who asked stupid questions about W9x drivers, or those who couldn't be bothered to immortalize good spelling, or those whose questions were more than slightly acidic in the first place. I am amazed at how lively, pertinent and vitally useful -questions is. Compared to almost any other list I frequent, the signal-to-noise is extremely high. I 'third' the search-archive problem. Improvement is necessary there, although the hiccuping hub.freebsd disk may be somewhat to blame. Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message