Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 06:05:33 -0800 (PST) From: Dylan Carlson <damage_z@yahoo.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: This list works poorly at best -- Was: Censorship... Message-ID: <20011101140533.80079.qmail@web10408.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <00a201c162af$43ed2b60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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I believe that if this list could adopt the same behavior of the Sun-Managers list, we would be fine. SUMMARY: emails would be a nice change. Thereby, people can subscribe to the summaries only if they choose to do so. And also we can make digests of the summaries. Of course, part of that is voluntary behavior. I don't think the experienced folks here are that far apart from the subscribers of Sun-Managers. The problem is people new to FreeBSD or Unix in general. They barely understand how to phrase their own questions, much less understand what they're asking. I believe for that we need active moderation. The signal:noise ratio has been extreme on this list at times, and has often kept me away from opening requests for help, even when I have time to do so. My $1.63. Cheers, Dylan --- Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christopher > >Sean Hilton > >Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:46 AM > >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: This list works poorly at best -- Was: Censorship... > > > >All the responses went back to the > >original sender and were not CC'd back to the list. At the end of this > > Hear ye hear ye!! > > While I haven't had the bad luck with the search engines that you have, I > have noticed that this happens quite a lot. I don't know how to change that > though, it's a personal behavior thing by the list members. I wish people > would keep in mind, though. > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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