From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 15:18: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22C337B956 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:18:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12231; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:17:42 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:17:42 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal: weekly posting about FreeBSD Diary In-Reply-To: <200002292244.LAA39892@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > How would the list react to a weekly posting about The FreeBSD Diary? > > It's been my experience that a large number of questions asked on this > list are covered by either the FAQ, the handbook, and by my site. For > many people, what they need is a practical example. That's where my > site can help. Many people are totally unaware of the Diary. If we can > make more people aware of the resources available at the Diary, > perhaps the pressure on the list might be reduced somewhat. Hell yeah. I'm probably not alone in forgetting there IS a Diary unless I desperately need it or /. mentions it. Not to say that it isn't good but, you know... it's one of the little things that easily slip the stressed mind. :) I think it's quite appropriate for this list. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message