From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 20:17:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014AD16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (sea1-f115.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52DC43D41 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:17:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:17:16 -0700 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:17:16 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] X-Originating-Email: [crollins666@hotmail.com] X-Sender: crollins666@hotmail.com From: "clayton rollins" To: etoll@vipstructures.com Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:17:16 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jul 2004 20:17:16.0598 (UTC) FILETIME=[39E02D60:01C4684D] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SSH port forwarding and Webmin X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:17:17 -0000 On July 12, 2004, "Eric Toll" wrote: > >Are you a moderator? > No. As far as I know, there's no moderator for -newbies. However, the FAK ( http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ ) states: "There's always someone around whose job it is to sort these problems out privately." After some discussion between list members and Sue (an advocate for the newbies list, and probably the only source of "authority" here), we had come to a few decisions for what to do with technical posts here. (See the list archives for more info on that thread.) In that conversation, we had expanded the FAK's idea of "someone" in the above statement. She had indicated that "more knowledgeable list members" should try to sort out these problems. (Not that I'm more knowledgeable on any of the technical matters, but I have read the FAK, which assures that we shouldn't see the questions here in the first place. More knowledgeable in that sense.) The idea of doing so privately seemed the worst solution to me, giving no advice and leaving the thread open. With some free time this morning, and noticing that quite a few technical questions had been asked here, I thought I'd give some time to clean up the list a little and redirect proper questions to questions@, or give advice on writing a more complete email. (I could've given links to official documentation here, but couldn't think of any relevant articles.) Regards, Clayton PS. I'm not trying to make those who hadn't read the list charter feel bad (with this or other emails), just to help the questions get to a proper forum. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 9 Dial-up Internet Access helps fight spam and pop-ups – now 2 months FREE! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/