Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 02:04:51 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: zjhh2@etsu.edu Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jhhiggins@prodigy.net Subject: Re: newbies mailing list Message-ID: <19980301020451.35068@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301012333.10907D-100000@localhost>; from James on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 01:29:41AM -0500 References: <19980301011318.06574@vmunix.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301012333.10907D-100000@localhost>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 01:29:41AM -0500, James wrote: > On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Mark Mayo wrote: > > > 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: You know this will be a hot topic when you see something like this above. And all in a few hours :-) > > > > [See the thread for the rest of the discussion :)] > > > > 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.. > > I think that is somewhat of an ideal situation. I think this could also > tend to run into the same overlap problems that Greg mentions on his web > page. (http://www.lemis.com/questions.html) Most certaily an ideal situation, but since things are far from ideal right now, I think giving it a shot and seeing how it turns out is really the only way to know if adding a -newbies would improve the situation. > > That bieng too generic questions for -newbies, and overly technical > questions for -questions. IMO, no question is too technical for -questions. I prefer to interpret the -questions name as meaning "any questions you might have about the operations of FreeBSD go here". So almost anything is fair game for -questions. -hackers should be reserved for hackers (i.e. code, kernel *source* questions and such). -Mark > > James -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980301020451.35068>