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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:49:35 -0400
From:      Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: #freebsd-newbies on effnet.
Message-ID:  <3539906F.AD54E6BD@aei.ca>
References:  <35397B1C.F90974D8@aei.ca> <19980419144206.16618@welearn.com.au>

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Sue Blake wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:18:36AM -0400, Malartre wrote:
> > Someone is interested to give bots for a #freebsd-newbies channel on
> > effnet?
>
> Oh? First you told us it was #BSD-Newbies, then #BSD-Help, and now you're
> saying #freebsd-newbies? Hmmm... no wonder I couldn't find it :-)
>
> > I think it should be a place for (maybe stupid) question about any
> > newbie-related-thing
>
> Who is going to answer the questions? What hours are they going to be
> available? Or is it going to be newbies advising other newbies?
>
> If I go to that channel and someone there tells me to run a particular
> command, how do I know it is safe? That makes me nervous, what about you?
>
> > anyone interested to support it?
>
> Sure, it's a great idea, but let's get it well planned.
>
> This isn't a company we're dealing with. Everything we want depends on
> volunteers, and you know what that means :-)  You want to see something
> happen, you do it yourself. If you can do it with the help of other newbies,
> fine, you organise it. Encourage other newbies to help you, keep in touch
> with them, work out between you who is going to do what. It's all up to you,
> we don't have any shcoolmasters here :-)
>
> It can be a bit hard for newbies because there's a lot we can't do without
> others helping, and they only have so much time to help us if they are
> already following their own good ideas, etc. Still, we have seen that there
> *is* a lot we can do! It just takes energy and the ability to plan and
> organise, and keep on working at it.
>
> A few weeks ago we saw a number of people volunteer to help each other. Did
> anyone follow this up? Did the volunteers sit back and wait to be asked to
> do something? Did the other people wait for the volunteers to offer a second
> time? This might feel like normal polite behaviour, but it won't work in our
> case. You have this list to do your chatting, and you have each other's
> email addresses now, so don't be shy and don't wait to be told what to do!
>
> > (sorry for the cross-mailling on 2 mailling list)
>
> I'm not sure how this is relevant to -chat so I'm just replying to -newbies.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>         -*Sue*-
>
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 Yeah, just a change to fit with the list ;-)

Dont know, I dont think than more advanced user are interested, so just a newbie
chat.

Malartre

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