From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 15 18:27:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07241 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 18:27:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07228 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 18:26:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01876; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:26:30 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980216132627.38920@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:26:28 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Steve Clark Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Create newbie site? References: <34E79B1C.D39B7A7E@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <34E79B1C.D39B7A7E@aei.ca>; from Steve Clark on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 08:49:17PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 08:49:17PM -0500, Steve Clark wrote: > Hello everybody I am interested in building a complete newbie site to > help the average user and complete beginner to the step over into > FreeBSD. I am just wondering if the site would help and if it would be > used by the general public. The trouble with web sites is that they're one-way communications. It is difficult to cause corrections to be made, or to know whether the contents can be accepted as being correct. Same goes for the appropriateness of language, presentation style, and so on. For new users all of these things are terribly important, and some might still believe that if it's on the web it must be believed. I don't mean to suggest that you wouldn't do a great job! But to do so you would need feedback and the feedback you'd get wouldn't necessarily be of the type which you'd need. Some people who could really benefit from the information might be reluctant to rely on it if it's simply someone's idea of what might be helpful. Others might be too quick to rely on it. If a web site were a good idea (and I have reservations), it would need to be done by someone who knows and awful lot about FreeBSD and how to communicate with newbies, who has years of experience in both, and is generally acknowledged as having those attributes. Considering the amount of thankless work involved, I would be inclined to doubt the suitability of anyone who would be willing to take it on :-) These are the conclusions I reached some time ago when considering the same thing myself. Basically it's a fantastic idea, long overdue, but I can't see any way it could be made to work. Other views may be equally valid. As a newbie, what would I know? :-) -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message