From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 4 21:40:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from c1456354-a.boise1.id.home.com (c1456354-a.boise1.id.home.com [65.4.107.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A3D437B401 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:40:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from g0rdi@c1456354-a.boise1.id.home.com) Received: (qmail 6933 invoked by uid 500); 5 Jun 2001 04:39:05 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:39:04 -0600 From: jeremy-novak To: alexdimauro@worldnet.att.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20010604223904.F6643@c1456354-a.boise1.id.home.com> References: <002201c0ed09$a54b7bd0$28fefea9@electronicdreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mlduke@concentric.net on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:58:55PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Alex, Ok, I just wanted to say lighten up just a tiny bit. I know the mail list titles can be misleading when you first encounter them. Trust me, FreeBSD folks are the most helpfull people on earth. I recommend subscribing to a couple of news groups at a time to see what content is usually posted on that group. Trustme, your mailbox will fill up with juicy FreeBSD goodies in nothing flat. Then you can browse through them, learn a lot of stuff, and then unsubscribe from the ones that don't really meet your needs or are out of your league (yes they are out there ;-) ). Before you know it, it will be obvious what goes where. Relax man, FreeBSD rules! And so do the people out there that rack their brains over other peoples problems for a hobby (little shout out to GNU homies :D) > On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Alexander DiMauro wrote: > > > Could someone please clarify something? > > Here is a quote from the FreeBSD-Newbies First Aid Kit: > > > > "FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG is the place to send all questions about > > installing, configuring, running and using FreeBSD. All help requests > > are handled by FreeBSD-Questions, including newbies questions. > > > > FreeBSD-Newbies is different. We don't ask for help or answer how-to > > questions. It is a discussion forum for newbies." > > > > And now, here is a quote from FreeBSD-Questions: > > > > "FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions > > This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not > > send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless you consider the > > question to be pretty technical." > > > > So, the newbies list says not to send "how-to" questions but to do it in freebsd-questions. And, the freebsd-questions list says not to send "how-to" questions. They seem to contradict eachother. I'm confused, can anyone clarify, please? > > > > Thanks, > > Alex -- "Without software it's just sand". "Without people, it's just sand and some software". --"${NAME}" ;-) (slightly modified from a fellow BSD'r that deserves the credit) ^ ^ email: pr0cy0n@home.com (but you already knew that) [ 0 0 ] ircnick: g0rdi , ' usenet/mail: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/freebsd-hackers, lots more o root password: just kidding! "You have an account at host.com"? "I wanna be user@host.com; I would get so many 'cool' e-mails". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message