Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:09:56 -240 From: "Pavlov's Cat" <Pavlov's.Cat@infi.net> To: gary@wcs.uq.oz.au Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Newbie mentoring Message-ID: <199504251946.PAA06332@larry.infi.net>
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Gary, As a confirmed "lurker" I am really attracted to your idea about mentoring newbies. Sign me up - I've been looking for an opportunity to give back some of what I've taken from this forum. The only problem I see is that, unlike the hard-core -hackers folks, us lurkers can make FreeBSD do whatever *we* need, but don't have the broad spectrum of knowledge that, say, Terry, has. Take me, fer instance; I can make the net-osity aspect of FreeBSD sing, routing, gated'ing, SLIP & PPP-ing, the whole thing. But 'X-11'? Whazzat? Don't use it, don't care for it, can't afford a 35" monitor to get all the displays I want to run. Who needs it when you got a sh prompt and multiple consoles? (Tongue firmly in cheek, here!) So my point is this - maybe it'd be a good idea if there was some mechanism for passing the buck so an assigned mentor could recognize that the question/issue was out of his/her area of expertise and draw another card. -- ...sjs... Steve Sims (SJS7) SimsS@Infi.Net Systems Engineer, IPC Technologies, Inc. Virginia Beach, VA "Everyone wants to save the Earth; Nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes." ...P.J. O'Roarke
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