From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 28 22:33:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27415 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 22:33:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1y-int.prodigy.net (mail1y-ext.prodigy.net [198.83.19.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27406; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 22:33:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamesh@etsu.edu) Received: from localhost (jamesh@slip166-72-245-82.tn.us.ibm.net [166.72.245.82]) by mail1y-int.prodigy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA80706; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 01:29:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 01:29:41 -0500 (EST) From: James X-Sender: jamesh@localhost Reply-To: zjhh2@etsu.edu To: Mark Mayo cc: Greg Lehey , Sue Blake , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jhhiggins@prodigy.net Subject: Re: newbies mailing list In-Reply-To: <19980301011318.06574@vmunix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Mark Mayo wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 04:14:07PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Sun, 1 March 1998 at 16:22:32 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 01:32:34PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > >> On Sun, 1 March 1998 at 10:56:51 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > [See the thread for the rest of the discussion :)] > > > What do you others think? > > I think that if you create a -newbies, a significant portion of > the questions that currently go to -questions will go to -newbies. > Why? If I were a newbie, and I had a problem, I would go "Oh, > a newbie list! I'll ask there!". So I think it would get significant > traffic. For this reason, it would be impossible for Sue to > formally moderate it in any way.. That would at least be my logic... albeit that is sometimes broken... :) > I think a -newbies wouldn't necessairly be bad (in this statement > I'm admitting that my initial reaction was: yeah, right..). It > might direct the truly simple questions away from -questions, > which might in turn become the generic questions list for everyone. > > Right now, if it's a newbie question, it goes to -questions. If the > question is moderately advanced, it goes to -hackers when it should > really go to -questions IMHO. So I guess I'm saying that adding > a -newbies list might help successfully 3-tier the lists into > something a little more logical. Maybe not.. I think that is somewhat of an ideal situation. I think this could also tend to run into the same overlap problems that Greg mentions on his web page. (http://www.lemis.com/questions.html) That bieng too generic questions for -newbies, and overly technical questions for -questions. // end and sigs snipped James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message