Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 03:47:32 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list Message-ID: <34FA9C54.777800CE@san.rr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301210912.26963A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Annelise Anderson wrote: [lots of snippage] > A newbies mailing list might be a good idea--the question that > arises is who's going to staff it? It seems Sue has sort of been > drafted....I think it will be a fairly demanding project. Projects like this tend to go better with a group of people to share the load. I'd be more comfortable with a small set of individuals handling leadership for the new list personally. That way people who aren't comfortable with a particular strong personality in a leadership role will feel more comfortable about participating. > Here are a few points I would make: > > 1) It would be interesting to know what difficulties > people run into with the current methods of documentation/help. For my money you can't emphasize this point highly enough. > 2) FreeBSD-questions has a rather remarkable group of > people answering questions. > 3) There's also the newsgroup--Joerg Wunsch and others. Agreed. > 4) Finally, there's irc. On what I think is called EFNet That's the largest IRC network, and one of the more chaotic ones. > there's #unixhelp, which is exactly where a lot of newbies need to be-- > quite a few of their problems are problems with basic unix skills. (The > #freebsd channel rarely has anything to do with FreeBSD or unix and is > pretty useless; There is a fair deal of kibitzing going on in there, but I've found the folks in efnet #freebsd to be knowledgable and helpful to those willing to help themselves. > IRC is of course always > problematic, but when it works, it works very well indeed.) Well, I like to think so. :) There is a #freebsd channel on dalnet that is usually staffed and has a good crew of friendly people. If anyone is interested in starting a new channel for freebsd newbies or some such, dalnet has a lot of advantages including channel and nickname services that provide stability and continuity sometimes lacking in other networks. Then again, I'm prejudiced. :) I'd be happy to offer assistance to anyone interested in a project like this. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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