Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:04:43 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <87ej0bkcr8.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20081213122621.001352ad@gom.home> (prad@towardsfreedom.com's message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:26:21 -0800") References: <200812112345.20572.perlcat@alltel.net> <20081212174607.GC36348@kokopelli.hydra> <4942B6A3.504@gmail.com> <18754.48923.616173.319215@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081212205614.GB37185@kokopelli.hydra> <31371229120906@webmail12.yandex.ru> <87iqppdlzh.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081213002037.F5665@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081213092104.GC39031@kokopelli.hydra> <20081213103054.B8893@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081213194302.GA51063@kokopelli.hydra> <20081213122621.001352ad@gom.home>
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:26:21 -0800, prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> wrote: > anyone know if there are moderators for this list? > > i know there are some very nice people who keep watch. once i messaged > the test list with a ports question (i was having trouble emailing this > one - so i was testing to see if there was some problem in general), > and a very considerate person from freebsd.org, Remko Lodder, emailed > me asking if i knew that i was emailing the test list. No, we don't have moderators on freebsd-questions. We have a fantastic postmaster, who is single-handedly managing dozens of mailing lists, replying to posts about email problems for the entire *.FreeBSD.org domain, and making sure that we get as little spam as possible. That sort of service that is so good and so transparent that it is _very_ easy to forget how useful and thankless it is. We seem to be doing quite fine without moderation so far. We even advertise freebsd-questions as the main "contact point for questions about FreeBSD" on release notes, our web site, and on the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM images sold by FreeBSD distributors like FreeBSD-Mall. There are very good reasons to keep this status quo. I have yet to see *one* good reason for introducing moderation. > i found it really decent that people look out for others here! Yes, that's the spirit :-)
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