From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 28 22:05:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22408 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 22:05:09 -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 WAA22401 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 22:05:03 -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 RAA12788; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:04:39 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980301170435.11729@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:04:35 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list References: <19980301105650.47895@welearn.com.au> <19980301133234.11473@freebie.lemis.com> <19980301162232.44505@welearn.com.au> <19980301161407.25838@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980301161407.25838@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 04:14:07PM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK, this is the kind of thing I had in mind. Criticism welcome. OBJECTIVES: 1. To provide a forum to meet and exchange experiences with other new FreeBSD users, in a tolerant, friendly and encouraging environment. 2. To help new users of FreeBSD to understand their problems sufficiently to present a well formed question to the FreeBSD support list, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org DO I BELONG HERE? Try this quick quiz: 1. Do you know the command to make a file that lists all the executable files less than 2k in size that were created in the last 2 weeks? 2. Have you ever done something incredibly stupid? If you answered no to the first and yes to the second, you'll be OK. RULE: Try hard to never do anything that might cause another newbie discomfort or confusion. For example, expressing annoyance at a post to the list causes discomfort to many, and wrong guesses confuse if they are presented as statements of fact rather than descriptions of personal experience. Be aware that we're a sensitive lot communicating through an ambiguous medium, and if we didn't make mistakes we wouldn't be here. WARNING: Don't trust any advice you get here! We're all newbies, and any response to a question will be at best an uneducated guess. If you act on what we say without checking its validity you're likely to do great damage to your system, probably your brain too. Throw ideas around and make your mistakes here, but if you want real answers and guidance that's worth considering, write to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. If it turns out that you've overlooked something really silly, we're not going to laugh at you. Our answers will often be just as silly. For example, you could use this list to help formulate a question that the helpful souls on freebsd-questions will find easy to answer properly. Still ask freebsd-questions even if you think we've already answered it here. -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message