Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 01:13:18 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list Message-ID: <19980301011318.06574@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <19980301161407.25838@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 04:14:07PM %2B1030 References: <19980301105650.47895@welearn.com.au> <19980301133234.11473@freebie.lemis.com> <19980301162232.44505@welearn.com.au> <19980301161407.25838@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 04:14:07PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sun, 1 March 1998 at 16:22:32 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 01:32:34PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sun, 1 March 1998 at 10:56:51 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: [See the thread for the rest of the discussion :)] > What do you others think? I think that if you create a -newbies, a significant portion of the questions that currently go to -questions will go to -newbies. Why? If I were a newbie, and I had a problem, I would go "Oh, a newbie list! I'll ask there!". So I think it would get significant traffic. For this reason, it would be impossible for Sue to formally moderate it in any way.. I think a -newbies wouldn't necessairly be bad (in this statement I'm admitting that my initial reaction was: yeah, right..). It might direct the truly simple questions away from -questions, which might in turn become the generic questions list for everyone. Right now, if it's a newbie question, it goes to -questions. If the question is moderately advanced, it goes to -hackers when it should really go to -questions IMHO. So I guess I'm saying that adding a -newbies list might help successfully 3-tier the lists into something a little more logical. Maybe not.. If people who are willing to answer beiginner questions do so on -questions, then I don't see why they wouldn't do so on -newbies, so I don't think you would end up with a "blind leading the blind" type of situation. Just my $.02.. (Basically, I see -hackers as an abused list, and I would like to see much of the traffic on it moved to -questions, and I think that adding a -newbies would entice more knowledgeable people to hang on -questions making that a viable proposal.. Man, this whole composition is filled with horrid grammer.. time for bed.. ;-)) -Mark > > Greg > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The problem is how do you build tools that understand your programs at a deeper semantic level." - James Gosling To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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