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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:55:21 -0600
From:      Gene <listmail@Bomgardner.net>
To:        Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?
Message-ID:  <41EC3449.9040004@Bomgardner.net>
In-Reply-To: <200501171338.39381.durham@jcdurham.com>
References:  <200501151147.54192.durham@jcdurham.com> <41E95D13.30605@mac.com> <200501171338.39381.durham@jcdurham.com>

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Ever thought about starting one of your own?
Gene

Jim Durham wrote:

>On Saturday 15 January 2005 01:12 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote:
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>>Jim Durham wrote:
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>>>I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running
>>>Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about
>>>8 servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more.
>>>      
>>>
>>OK.
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>>>Freebsd-questions is wonderful and I find a lot of answers there, but the
>>>signal-to-noise is low when you are just looking for IT-oriented
>>>information regarding FreeBSD. Especially regarding systems implemented
>>>for an office/LAN environment.
>>>
>>>I was wondering if there is any mailing list or newsgroup devoted to IT
>>>on FreeBSD? Google is not returning any hits on this, nor the listing on
>>>freebsd.org.
>>>      
>>>
>>Your question parses, but it is not clear what specific thing you have in
>>mind that would seperate an IT-oriented list from a non-IT oriented list. 
>>Can you either give an example question or two, or can you say why
>>freebsd-questions is *not* IT-oriented?
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>Sorry for the slow reply...I was out of touch for a day..
>
>I guess I'm thinking that there are just a lot of things that you get into in 
>a corporate environment . "For instances" are hard to think of off the top of 
>my head, but, how about implementing Citrix NFuse on Tomcat on FreeBSD? They 
>always assume Linux or Solaris or (sorry..SCO..8-) ) and while you can make 
>it work on FreeBSD, you spend a lot of time fixing stuff that probably 
>someone else has fixed before or conversly, you should be sharing thi info so 
>others don't have to wade through the 'discovery' process.
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>>Or does your question mean you looking for a list whose members are mostly
>>sysadmins and network managers, rather than end-users? 
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>Exactly. 
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>>FreeBSD doesn't 
>>really make much distinction between an end-user and a sysadmin [1], but
>>you might find freebsd-stable or freebsd-isp to come closer to what you are
>>looking for.
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>What I'm saying is a list like freebsd-isp, but focused on corporate IT with 
>FreeBSD.  -isp is helpful, and I *am* subscribed, but doesn't include a lot 
>of IT types.
>
>(snip)
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