Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:04:55 -0600 From: Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies web page [was: -newbies] Message-ID: <39E8CA77.6EE4B0C7@uswest.net> References: <39E86BC9.4FA97AC1@uswest.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010130733420.24921-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20001015034050.E2537@welearn.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>When you join -newbies you get a brief run-down, and then the FAK >is posted once a week. What do you want, daily? No. How about every 5 days? Sue Blake wrote: > (First, I'd like to request that freebsd-chat be removed from the > headers of replies. This is a freebsd-newbies discussion, and newbies > might not realise that posting to several lists at once is generally > discouraged. FreeBSD-chat is mostly for non-FreeBSD chat that spills > over from the technical lists where it becomes off topic there.) > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:52:00AM +0000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > (and someone else wrote...) > > > > > Maybe it would help if Sue's "FreeBSD Newbies First Aid Kit" was > > > posted more often? > > When you join -newbies you get a brief run-down, and then the FAK > is posted once a week. What do you want, daily? > > > Yes, we also should try to get the -newbies Web Page updated... > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies. > > All you need to do is send me ideas for change, and it'll be done. > I've mentioned this to newbies over and over. Nobody has ever done so!! > > We do need to have a central starting point for newbies on the FreeBSD > web site. While I've received many notes of appreciation, the support > for this, in terms of contributions suggestions or ideas, has been > consistently underwhelming. > > You guys have to learn that you are not consumers. You get what you > want by collaborating on it and then getting up and _doing_ it, or > at least helping out those who are already doing stuff. > This is the real world. You don't have no Mummy round no more. > Live with it. Learn to thrive on it. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > -- FreeBSD = The Power to Serve ..Simply put = FreeBSD Rocks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?39E8CA77.6EE4B0C7>