From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 22:15:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CABA37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 22:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E5F243E75 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 22:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.simx.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g765Etd3067913; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 07:14:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3D4F5BA6.8040206@401.cx> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 07:16:22 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ganesh Kumar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: subscribe References: <20020805024653.N93736-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ganesh Kumar wrote: > I think, we can include a web-interface in the site freebsd.org with a > drop-down for the various lists and a "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" > botton. > > Wont this solve this kinda problems in future ? > > > cheers > Ganesh Kumar A great idea, and very easy to implement. Someone call webmaster. > On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Scott Robbins wrote: > > >>On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 03:25:32AM +0200, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: >> >>>This seems to happen very often lately.... >>> >>>Quoting the handbook: >>>------------ >>>C.1.2 How to Subscribe >>> >>>To subscribe to a list, send mail to and >>>include >>> >>> subscribe [] >> >> >>As I'm sure everyone cares what I think about this :) >> >>Seriously, I co-moderate a few newbie Linux lists and have made a faq >>for them. I have several stock messages that I'll insert in an answer, >>depending upon their offence, but basically coming down to, you received >>a link to a faq when you joined this list, your question is answered >>there, blah blah. >> >>Today, with a bit of reluctance, I added the question, as it's become a >>Frequently Asked one of how does one get to a command prompt. >> >>I think that MS has made some poor marketing decisions, and this is >>pushing a lot of people to try Linux and *BSD. Some of these people >>simply run into problems because, for example, they go to >>www.freebsd.org and English isn't their first language, and perhaps >>their language isn't listed. >> >>Some are well-meaning and just need to be taught. And some, of course, >>are just plain lazy. >> >>Computers are becoming more and more common, and therefore, there is >>going to be an influx of less computer-literate people. I suppose this >>discussion belongs on advocacy, but anyway, that's my answer to your >>question. :) As computer use grows, the number of less computer >>literate folks who use one also grows. As MS becomes more unpopular, >>and people look for alternatives, the number of folks who know very >>little but try to use Linux or *BSD increases. We can throw up our >>hands in disgust, welcome all of them, or try to deal with it as >>individuals on a case by case basis. How we deal with it is DEFINITELY >>a question for advocacy rather than questions, but... >> >>Anyway, sorry for a bit of a waste of bandwidth, but it is a subject >>that has been on my mind lately. >> >>-- >>Scott >> >> >>Willow: Diana, Hecate, I hereby license thee to depart. >>Goddess of creatures great and small, I conjure thee to withdraw >>Amy: (squeak) >>Buffy: Maybe we should get her one of those wheel thingies. >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message