Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:59:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -newbies Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010132254540.1053-100000@parmenides.utp.net> In-Reply-To: <39E6E839.3A0EC2B6@acuson.com>
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Excellent suggestion. Rename "freebsd-newbies" to "freebsd-newbies-chat". ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, David Johnson wrote: > > Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > FreeBSD-newbies needs to be removed. I've been on it since it was > > created and can say that it is not living up to it's orginal purpose. If I > > remeber right, and a quick check of the archives seems to confirm, > > -newbies was created only if no questions were asked there. In the last > > year or two it has been a low-traffic list. Most every post across it has > > either been a cross-post, OR a question! > > Recheck your archives. Questions are allowed, just not technical > questions. Questions like "how to configure X" are a no-no, but > questions like "what window managers should I check out" is okay. > Overall, I wouldn't say that "most" every post was wrong. Maybe 25% were > misguided. In the interests of helping newbies, occasional posts on the > order of "the kids are misbehaving" is not constructive. > > Perhaps the problem is that the name is wrong. In every other set of > mailing lists, -newbies is for newbies with questions. Maybe the name > -newbies-chat would indicate that the list is for newbies, yet not for > questions... > > -- > David Johnson > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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