Re: Time to shut down this list?

From: Robert Marella (marella_at_hawaii.rr.com)
Date: 12/23/04

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    Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:19:36 -1000
To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:27:08 -0600
    Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote:

    > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
    >
    > >Most (all?) of the traffic on -newbies lately has been of technical
    > >nature. That's not surprising, but there are a number of reasons why
    > >it's not a good idea:
    > >
    > >
    >
    > These reasons (though snipped) are correct, of course.
    >
    <more snip...>

    > It's certainly true that there are many other lists
    > that may be more appropriate; but I also think, as
    > many other posters have mentioned, that a "point of
    > entry" for questions that "might be dumb" isn't
    > such a bad idea, precisely because human nature
    > seems to indicate that people will ask a lot of FAQs
    >

    Let us not forget how FAQs became FAQs. Sometimes an acronym takes
    on a life of it's own and in this case it is sometimes misconstrued
    as a *fact*. It means Frequently Asked Questions. There must be a
    reason why they are frequently asked!

    I have been using FreeBSD for almost a year. I absolutely love it.
    My troubles were plenty when I started and I subscribed to newbies@
    and lurked for a while. I realized quickly that this was not the place
    to ask technical questions so I subsribed to questions@ and lurked there.

    My first post to questions was very helpful. I received zero responses
    and was forced to find the answer myself. A great learning experience.
    I have since asked about a dozen questions and sometimes I still do
    not receive a response. Questions@ is not the *end all* for answers.

    I feel that there is a need for a newbies@ but it needs to provide
    some help. If one was to go to a forum there are always stickies and
    direct links to the FAQs. Perhaps this can be incorporated into
    newbies.

    My 2 seashells

    Mele Kalikimaka
    Robert
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