From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 18 19:17:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29501 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:17:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.impulse.net (mail.impulse.net [204.188.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA29493 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@merchantsnet.com) Received: (qmail 29843 invoked from network); 19 Jun 1998 02:16:59 -0000 Received: from sb1-61.impulse.net (HELO 708644668) (204.188.6.61) by mail.impulse.net with SMTP; 19 Jun 1998 02:16:59 -0000 From: "Michael P. Sale" To: "Nik Clayton" Cc: Subject: Re: Lists, newbies & support (was: Re: Where to get Windows Internet stuff/ More on Windows & BSD) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:12:05 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd9b27$a772f280$3d06bccc@708644668> 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 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Tell me about it. > >Case in point: A few (3 or 4 I think) months ago there was a spate of >Year 2000 questions on -questions. Getting bored of wading through these, >I put together various bits and pieces and created the FreeBSD Y2K web >page where these things are addressed. > >Once, sometimes twice a day someone comes into -questions and asks "Is >FreeBSD Y2K compliant?" (or a variant on that theme). At least now they're >generally just given the URL in a one or two line message and it's left >at that. But it is disheartening to know that they didn't bother checking >the site, the search engine or the mailing list archives first. Nik, I could kiss you. Not really. This is my point. I can only guess that most newbie questions get continually repeated. As such, good things such as web pages with detailed newbie type information would occur more often and, more importantly, be geared towards the newbie. To me, this is a good thing. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message