Re: It's 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 08:56:04 -0600
To: Chris Zumbrunn <chris@zumbrunn.com>

    Chris Zumbrunn wrote:

    >
    > On Dec 28, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:
    >
    >> Thats fine sue but what are we going to do with the new people that
    >> are too overwhelmed, intimidated, or jilted (from past experiences)
    >> to post to the questions mailing list?
    >
    >
    > Isn't the main reason why new users are intimidated to ask questions
    > on freebsd-questions because of the very existence of freebsd-newbies?
    > Because freebsd-newbies exists, the newbies feel that that's where
    > they belong. For the future new users, that will never have heard that
    > freebsd-newbies ever existed, it will be natural to ask questions on
    > freebsd-questions. Instead they will be intimidated to discuss
    > "specific technical issue" on freebsd-hackers ;-)
    >
    Yea I see your point but there's still the ones that feel overwhelmed by
    the volume of traffic on the questions list and to a lesser extent the
    jilted ones from being told to RTFM on linux type lists
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