Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:19:36 -1000 From: Robert Marella <marella@hawaii.rr.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to shut down this list? Message-ID: <20041223121936.19c780c2@localhost> In-Reply-To: <41CB1C0C.70804@daleco.biz> References: <20041223063731.GW53357@wantadilla.lemis.com> <41CB1C0C.70804@daleco.biz>
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:27:08 -0600 Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > >Most (all?) of the traffic on -newbies lately has been of technical > >nature. That's not surprising, but there are a number of reasons why > >it's not a good idea: > > > > > > These reasons (though snipped) are correct, of course. > <more snip...> > It's certainly true that there are many other lists > that may be more appropriate; but I also think, as > many other posters have mentioned, that a "point of > entry" for questions that "might be dumb" isn't > such a bad idea, precisely because human nature > seems to indicate that people will ask a lot of FAQs > Let us not forget how FAQs became FAQs. Sometimes an acronym takes on a life of it's own and in this case it is sometimes misconstrued as a *fact*. It means Frequently Asked Questions. There must be a reason why they are frequently asked! I have been using FreeBSD for almost a year. I absolutely love it. My troubles were plenty when I started and I subscribed to newbies@ and lurked for a while. I realized quickly that this was not the place to ask technical questions so I subsribed to questions@ and lurked there. My first post to questions was very helpful. I received zero responses and was forced to find the answer myself. A great learning experience. I have since asked about a dozen questions and sometimes I still do not receive a response. Questions@ is not the *end all* for answers. I feel that there is a need for a newbies@ but it needs to provide some help. If one was to go to a forum there are always stickies and direct links to the FAQs. Perhaps this can be incorporated into newbies. My 2 seashells Mele Kalikimaka Robert
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