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Date:      Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:44:55 -0400
From:      Steve Kudlak <chromexa@ovis.net>
To:        James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -newbies
Message-ID:  <39EA5D96.C893C572@ovis.net>
References:  <000101c036d6$308be670$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net>

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James A Wilde wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rick Hamell
> > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 09:52
> > To: Joe Warner
> > Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: -newbies
> >
> This comment is not particularly directed to Rick, rather to the thread.
>
> Are there many people who actually know from which list a message comes?  In
> an earlier life messages from all the lists I subscribed to
> (-newbies, -questions and -security) ended up in 'Inbox'.  At a later stage
> I made a rule which sends everything from *@freebsd.org to a folder called
> 'FreeBSD incoming' to distinguish it from Bugtraq and more personal stuff.
> >From there most of it goes to the bit bucket but some messages go to
> 'FreeBSD to keep' and a very few to other folders with names of topics which
> particularly interest me.
>
> But it came as a surprise to me to learn that that long thread on a FreeBSD
> magazine had originated in newbies.  Am I the only one who doesn't much
> bother which list a message comes from and usually doesn't know - without
> checking the header?
>
> mvh/regards
>
> James
>
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Well let me tell me story. :) I poked around the various *nix mailing lists. And
took something of a peek or something of a peek and an intermediate look at
things relating to LINUX, FreeBSD and other things. Some seemed liked squabbling
10 year olds, or close social groups of  "x-clubs" where "y's are Ok as long as
they tiptoe around the dominant group.

I didn't find this here much at all. The "Newbies with Newbies" sounded a little
weird to my sensibilities. So of like those "lock down dances " they have around
here were they lock teenagers
with other teeneagers. But in this case it got honored in the breech, but it
seemed to have no harm seems to have been done. So I coudln't see what all the
alarm was about.

It seems nice to have a central place to ask questions, works for me seems to be
OK with me. What is a little grating is the"deal with it" sort of attiyude,
artributable to no one person, but it is the idea that floarted around here when
I learned Unix in a university environment.  It seems to make it a bit more
unfriendly but there is at least a little better.

As far as the BSD mag, I thought that was a bewbiw sort of thing. I have seen
more people learn variou operating sytems out of magazines than some manuals.
Whetherit would fly I dunno. I think now I will gobackto lurking andreading.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve



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