Re: Time to shut down this list?

From: Joshua Tinnin (krinklyfig_at_spymac.com)
Date: 12/28/04

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    To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:20:15 -0800

    On Monday 27 December 2004 11:33 pm, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
    wrote:
    > On Monday 27 December 2004 19:16, you wrote:
    > > On Monday 27 December 2004 06:50 pm, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
    > > > One of my ideas is to come up with a short, succint version of
    > > > the newbies list charter and to have it appended to every
    > > > message, as a list signature. Would any of you "frequent newbie
    > > > flyers" like to have a go at the text for this? This gentle
    > > > reminder should inform them to seek help on technical questions
    > > > on the -questions list, and refer to the newbies list charter via
    > > > URL.
    > >
    > > How about something like, "freebsd-questions is not a technical
    > > help or support list. See:
    > > http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ "
    > >
    > > > *You* of all people should know where to find the official list
    > > > charter. ;^)
    > >
    > > Me, specifically? Well, yes, but I'm not sure why me, of all people
    > > ...
    > >
    > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresource
    > >s.html#E RESOURCES-CHARTERS
    >
    > Ah, sorry, I meant the inclusive "you" as in the previously
    > referred-to "frequent newbie flyers". And perhaps another sentence
    > or two describing what the newbies list IS for?
    >
    > But thanks for stepping up on this, I'm sure you'll come up with
    > something good, communicate it to core@, and someone there will
    > shepherd it over to postmaster. You see, I'm leaving on holiday
    > tomorrow morn...

    I was going for the most brevity ... OK, then, ... hmmm ...

    "freebsd-questions is a general discussion forum for new FreeBSD users
    to share their experiences and to help each other with non-technical
    issues. It is not a technical help or support list. See:
    http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ "

    I dunno. This part: "help each other with non-technical issues" sounds
    not quite right, as people can answer broad technical questions here,
    like whether it's better to use a GUI interface for system
    administration. Am having trouble distilling a description down to one
    sentence. Maybe that's alright and I'm just overthinking it. Will send
    it out and see what you all think.

    - jt
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