Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:49:35 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: #freebsd-newbies on effnet. Message-ID: <3539906F.AD54E6BD@aei.ca> References: <35397B1C.F90974D8@aei.ca> <19980419144206.16618@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:18:36AM -0400, Malartre wrote: > > Someone is interested to give bots for a #freebsd-newbies channel on > > effnet? > > Oh? First you told us it was #BSD-Newbies, then #BSD-Help, and now you're > saying #freebsd-newbies? Hmmm... no wonder I couldn't find it :-) > > > I think it should be a place for (maybe stupid) question about any > > newbie-related-thing > > Who is going to answer the questions? What hours are they going to be > available? Or is it going to be newbies advising other newbies? > > If I go to that channel and someone there tells me to run a particular > command, how do I know it is safe? That makes me nervous, what about you? > > > anyone interested to support it? > > Sure, it's a great idea, but let's get it well planned. > > This isn't a company we're dealing with. Everything we want depends on > volunteers, and you know what that means :-) You want to see something > happen, you do it yourself. If you can do it with the help of other newbies, > fine, you organise it. Encourage other newbies to help you, keep in touch > with them, work out between you who is going to do what. It's all up to you, > we don't have any shcoolmasters here :-) > > It can be a bit hard for newbies because there's a lot we can't do without > others helping, and they only have so much time to help us if they are > already following their own good ideas, etc. Still, we have seen that there > *is* a lot we can do! It just takes energy and the ability to plan and > organise, and keep on working at it. > > A few weeks ago we saw a number of people volunteer to help each other. Did > anyone follow this up? Did the volunteers sit back and wait to be asked to > do something? Did the other people wait for the volunteers to offer a second > time? This might feel like normal polite behaviour, but it won't work in our > case. You have this list to do your chatting, and you have each other's > email addresses now, so don't be shy and don't wait to be told what to do! > > > (sorry for the cross-mailling on 2 mailling list) > > I'm not sure how this is relevant to -chat so I'm just replying to -newbies. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > find / -name "*.conf" |more > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message Yeah, just a change to fit with the list ;-) Dont know, I dont think than more advanced user are interested, so just a newbie chat. Malartre -- --------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5-RELEASE --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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