RE: It's time to shut down this list.

From: Freek Nossin (freeknossin_at_tiscali.nl)
Date: 12/28/04

  • Next message: Nikolas Britton: "Re: It's time to shut down this list." 
    To: <FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:53:02 +0100

    <snip>

     From time to time people have asked for a place for new users to
    ask for technical help. That place is, and has always been,
    FreeBSD-Questions. If you want a separate group for that, then you
    have an issue that has nothing to do with the present discussion.
    If there ever were a mailing list for newbie tech support, it would
    NOT be this one, it would NOT be this one, do I make myself clear?
    A new mailing list would have to be created for the purpose, with a
    different name as well as a different list charter.

    </snip>

    I do not see the problem in keeping this list.
    First you tell us that the original purpose of this list is not of this time
    anymore. So IF this list still had that purpose as its right to exist, in
    THAT case the list should be removed (I agree with that).

    But that isn't the case, obviously. The list is now used by people who don't
    want to post in the -questions mailing list for various reasons. Now you
    tell us that there must start a new mailing list for questions that. But
    why? This mailing list exists already and its name that used to be wrongly
    chosen (with the old purpose), now DOES cover the idea of the list.

    I do think that people that start with freebsd should have a place where
    they can ask "stupid" questions, separate from -questions. There are a
    number of reasons to do that, but in the past few days they've been summed
    up a number of times, so I won't bother you all with that.

    If this list must close for some reason and there is room for a "newbie
    corner", than I would suggest to create a -questions and a -advanced, or
    something like that.

    Ed

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