Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:19:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list Message-ID: <19980302191905.52913@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301224633.27288A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from Annelise Anderson on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 10:55:16PM -0800 References: <19980302172511.58160@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301224633.27288A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Sun, 1 March 1998 at 22:55:16 -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > > I don't know if the mailing list is a good idea or not. I do not > think you can expect the talent that informs freebsd=questions to > read another mailing list. I don't think that was the intention. The way I understand it, Sue is targetting the people who are somewhat daunted by the level of -questions, and who either lurk or just plain give up because they can't understand what's going on. Consider -questions the school and -newbies the kindergarten. > Greg Lehey seems to think it should be blessed by freebsd.org et.al. > However, I'd be willing to host the mailing list on my computer if > someone else wants to run the mailing list, i.e., handle the subscribe/ > unsubscribe/bounce messages. (That person would be its owner.) I haven't > done this--I have one mailing list that I handle directly--but I think > I could figure it out. I think things like this work much better if they're handled in a uniform manner. I don't think that anybody would begrudge the CPU power it takes to run a list like this, and a "private" list is more likely to be overlooked. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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