From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 08:30:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10E616A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 08:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta1.adelphia.net (mta1.adelphia.net [68.168.78.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE3643FF3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 08:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta1.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20031001153428.POBH22860.mta1.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:34:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3F7AF305.9010306@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:30:13 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." References: <3F7AF0BD.50005@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <3F7AF0BD.50005@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should I read current-list? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:30:15 -0000 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > I run 4-STABLE on my servers, > but recently I put FBSD 5.1-RELEASE > on my desktop, (and I'm liking it ;-) > > I was wondering if reading current@ would > be worth the time ... I'm not really intending > to track the HEAD, but every once in a while > there's something I wonder about. But, it's taking > more and more time to get through the mail I > get now (maybe I should quit aliasing it to > 2 different boxen, heh...) > > Anyone got thoughts on the value of the > -CURRENT list for a "noob" Desktop user? First off, -CURRENT is pretty low volume (compared to -QUESTIONS and other lists). However, I doubt that much of what goes on there would be of interest to you if you're not planning to track HEAD. And anything that is of interested you can probably find easily enough by searching the archives. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com