From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jan 24 19:11:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from idscc05.onewest.net (idscc16.onewest.net [199.104.81.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E1D37B41B for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:11:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from terry (du212.idfl-223.onewest.net [12.7.223.212] (may be forged)) by idscc05.onewest.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g0P3BNk30771 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:11:23 -0700 Message-ID: <004501c1a555$53695620$0400a8c0@terry> From: "Terry Thomas" To: References: <20020124220833.17562.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com> <200201250251.g0P2psU14890@mail.ezwv.com> Subject: Re: Newsgroups and more, oh my! Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:04:01 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There is an excellent searchable mailing list archive at http://groups.google.com/groups?group=mailing.freebsd.questions or http://groups.google.com/groups?group=mailing.freebsd.newbies that seems to be more reachable/searchable than at http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html My guess is that the freebsd-questions archive has extremely high traffic and is off-line sometimes??? But then freebsd.org also gives you the option of searching the docs too... either way all are handy when you have immediate problems that you need answers to... Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Pratt" To: "Ben P" Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:59 PM Subject: Re: Newsgroups and more, oh my! > On Thursday 24 January 2002 05:08 pm, Ben P wrote: > > I'm gettig roughly 150 messages in my inbox a day. > > While I am helped by most of them, this is a > > staggering amount of email for someone who gets maybe > > an hour a day to read his email. > > > > I was wondering if there was some form of newsgroup > > that I could subscribe to that would have the same > > content as the mailing list, and, if so, how would I > > go about setting it up. > > > > I know this is a very "newbie" question, but thanks > > you for helping. > > You do not have to subscribe to a mailing list to read it. All of the > mailing lists are available on the web. The "current" weeks postings for all > the lists are at: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/ > > And if you want to read older postings, just go to the parent directory and > select the year, then group, then month. > > http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ > > There are some news servers that do mirror some of the mailing lists. This > depends on your news service. Do a search of your available groups for > "freebsd" and see what's available. > > Hope this helps a bit, > > Randy > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message