Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:48:50 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: pirat sriyotha <pirat@oaep.go.th> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions Message-ID: <19980629174850.54128@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980629133358.342B-100000@prime.oaep.go.th>; from pirat sriyotha on Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 01:50:51PM %2B0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980629133358.342B-100000@prime.oaep.go.th>
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On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 01:50:51PM +0700, pirat sriyotha wrote: > hi, > > i've subscribed to questions. oh what a huge amount of q & a overthere ! > i get about 200 q & a per day. some are usefull to me some are good to > the question maker. i am overloaded with those q & a for the last two or > three days. You can ask freebsd-questions without subscribing. They are very happy to answer questions from newbies, and they usually send you a copy of the reply by email as well. It is the place for all support questions about FreeBSD. The only place. We are all welcome there. > well, i do not mean one can not ask some kind of wondering here. during > discussion or talking, if one could not ask anything that were quite ... , > i do not know how to say, apologize me sue. but i suggest newbies to > subscribe to question for a few days and make your own choice to ask a > real question in newbies or in questions. Perhaps I didn't explain clearly enough when you asked about it a couple of times before, sorry. I'll give some more info here because others might be interested too. According to the information in the Handbook about mailing lists, there are some requirements for people who wish to participate. For example, support questions must go to freebsd-questions as set out in the list charters, and matters relating to the FreeBSD Documentation Project go to freebsd-doc, not to freebsd-ports which is for people porting software, and so on. The main requirement is that each list "charter", or description, be followed. That means that you can only use a mailing list for its own special purpose. This is all carefully set out at (currently) http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook345.html I recommend that everyone should read this page carefully. You will find a short description of each list, and at the top is some information about general behaviour for all FreeBSD mailing lists. The requirements are very few, and very specific. In the case of freebsd-newbies, we have a longer document that describes the list. It is at http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ It, too, spells out what this list is for and what it is not for, and offers more advice. It is distributed via the list once a week. In addition, when you subscribe to freebsd-newbies you are sent a short automated note which explains the difference between freebsd-newbies and freebsd-questions and provides the URLs where you can get the full information. There aren't very many rules, but when we use a mailing list we choose to be governed by the list charters and the general list behaviour guidelines. Their purpose is to help us all to achieve what we want to achieve by understanding the best way to work together. Please take a look, and you are welcome to ask here if there is anything you don't understand about http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook345.html -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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