From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 28 21:38:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16224 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 21:38:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16207; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 21:38:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12691; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 16:37:52 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980301163748.41533@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 16:37:49 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list References: <19980301133234.11473@freebie.lemis.com> <199803010352.TAA03933@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199803010352.TAA03933@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 07:52:01PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 07:52:01PM -0800, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > On the other hand, I can't really see much advantage from a newbies > > list. Maybe you should present more arguments. > > i concur with greg on this one. > what would a newbies list offer that questions does not? > > a newbies list would be somewhere "safe" to ask simple > questions.....well that's part of questions. Sorry, but that it is not and never can be. > besides questions offers some more advanced material as well. And that is its real value. > how long before newbie with a little knowlege abandon the > newbies list in favor of the other lists? Hopefully pretty quickly. I'm not trying to help you by getting newbies out of your hair. I'm trying to help newbies by creating an enclave which offers something quite different to what already exists. > a list of only newbies would not be very useful. It would be extremely unuseful to anyone but a newbie. I expect that everyone except newbies will hate the idea, and newbies will love it :-) > i dont understand the purpose or attraction of such a list. ;( And I can't cause you to understand any more than you can cause me to understand FreeBSD. We're too many poles apart to have similar motivations and perspectives, though neither is less real than the other. -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message