From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jul 8 03:50:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06022 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:22:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05812 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:21:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (kaput@aeiusrI-42.aei.ca [206.186.205.192]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA12806; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 03:48:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35A32308.4CD16590@aei.ca> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 03:43:04 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Boothman CC: FreeBSD Newbies Discussion List Subject: Re: WOW! Passive Learning References: <35A22A82.AB4C4F85@boothman.easynet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Anyway, even though I don't even have FreeBSD installed yet, I've been > reading freebsd-newbies, -questions, and comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and > I think it's really amazing how much I've learned even though I've never > actually had any exposure to the OS. > > I think that lurking about on the mailing lists and the newsgroups is > the best way to prepare yourself for installing FreeBSD. I can actually > *understand* most of the messages that fly about on -questions and > c.u.b.freebsd.misc, and feel that I could actually answer them > sometimes. And I've not even touched a FreeBSD system. I currently read all e-mail on questions@freebsd.org and sometimes I find something interesting (like that really stupid problem it taked me 2 week to correct/understand =) and I even answer! -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message