From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 1:49:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from richardson.apana.org.au (richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 353B814D61 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:48:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from young@richardson.apana.org.au) Received: from jdy [203.3.126.129] by richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4.T) for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:28:56 +1000 Message-ID: <003f01bef00a$8d142740$857e03cb@jdy> From: "Young" To: "Roy Bettle" Cc: Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:32:47 +1000 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 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Return-Path: young@richardson.apana.org.au Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :) :) :) hey its good to see that I'm not the only newbie contributing to this string dunno about the cable bit though, present cost of that stuff in OZ is about $1300 a month -----Original Message----- From: Roy Bettle To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 5:09 AM Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program >Wow! As a struggling newbie from "Micro$haft Land", I would love to be >a part of a progam like this. > >I would finally be able to figure out my NAT+@Home cable modem issues >... > >RAB > > >Damien Tougas wrote: > >> Hello FreeBSD Gurus, >> >> I just had an idea. What would people think of starting an 'Adopt >> a Newbie Program' where volunteers can hold the hand of a newbie >> as they trudge up the FreeBSD learning curve? Volunteers could >> be signed up with a list of their skills or areas of expertise, and >> matched with a newbie who will have similar requirements. Not all >> newbies will want the same thing, and not all Gurus have the same >> areas of expertise, so some sort of matching would probably be a >> good thing. Certain things would have to be in place so that >> the Gurus would only take on as many newbies as they wanted at >> any given time etc. >> >> Just a thought, I'm sure there are lots of issues involved in >> creating somthing like this. >> >> -- >> Damien Tougas >> Converging Technology Solutions, Inc. >> Phone: (780)469-1679 >> Fax: (780)461-5127 >> E-mail: dtougas@converging.net >> http://www.converging.net >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- > >RAB > > >Roy Bettle >President, Criterion Group >http://www.criterion-group.com >rbettle@criterion-group.com >(949) 452-1203 > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message