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On Dec 28, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> Thats fine sue but what are we going to do with the new people that 
> are too overwhelmed, intimidated, or jilted (from past experiences) to 
> post to the questions mailing list?

Isn't the main reason why new users are intimidated to ask questions on 
freebsd-questions because of the very existence of freebsd-newbies? 
Because freebsd-newbies exists, the newbies feel that that's where they 
belong. For the future new users, that will never have heard that 
freebsd-newbies ever existed, it will be natural to ask questions on 
freebsd-questions. Instead they will be intimidated to discuss 
"specific technical issue" on freebsd-hackers ;-)

Chris