Re: Time to shut down this list?

From: Nikolas Britton (freebsd_at_nbritton.org)
Date: 12/28/04

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    Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:01:01 -0600
To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com>

    Joshua Tinnin wrote:

    >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.
    >
    >
    >
    Yea I understand why it doesn't make sense, oxymorons never do. You
    might also what to think about changing freebsd-questions to
    freebsd-newbies.
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