Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:01:25 +1000 (EST) From: Gary Roberts <gary@wcs.uq.oz.au> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups Message-ID: <9504250101.AA15300@wcs.uq.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <811.798769365@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 24, 95 05:22:45 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > ... If every `lurker' agreed to
> > `adopt a newbie' and hold his/her hand until he/she got running, that
> > should immediately reduce newbie traffic in both news and mail by
> > transferring the traffic from the public lists to private e-mail. However,
>
> If you manage to make this go, you have my personal nomination for the ...
OK, having been stupid enough to put my hand up in the first place, here
is what I see myself being able to do.
1. I agree to act as a `registration point' for willing `lurkers'. If you
are willing to help, I would maintain your details on a centralised list.
You would only get one newbie at a time unless you agreed to take more.
You don't have to be a `lurker', just willing to `adopt a newbie'.
(I've already put Terry down for 50. With his volume of output he
should easily be able to handle that number :-> ;-> :->.) (Although
with his 20% `confusion' factor [according to Julian was it??] maybe
that isn't such a good idea -- it'd probably be 90% with newbies :->.)
All jokes aside, I just wanted to make it clear that the helpers list
would be very much open to all and not limited to one newbie at a time.
2. I would produce a suitable `announcement' of the service which would
be posted say once a month (or whatever).
3. I would receive all requests from newbies and send them a standard
acknowledgement, pointing out that their commitment would be to take
on a newbie themselves at the end of their `hand-holding' period.
If they agreed to the conditions, I would allocate them to a helper.
4. At the end of the hand-holding period (how long do people feel this
should be??) the newbie name would be transferred automatically to
the bottom of the helper list and they would be automatically given
the next newbie.
5. Helpers can withdraw at any time *after* handling 1 newbie. This
would be the basic minimum commitment of a helper/ex-newbie.
6. I would try to do this `by hand' unless some scripting expert could
come up with some automated scheme to handle it.
This is all just `off the top of my head' at the moment. Please feedback
suggestions/comments as you see fit.
Cheers,
--
Gary Roberts (gary@wcs.uq.edu.au) (Ph +617 844 0400 Fax +617 844 0444)
4th Floor, South Bank House, 234 Grey St, South Bank QLD 4101 Australia.
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