Re: List replies

There is a touching concern for newbies in all this, which is out
of step with the somewhat edgy aspect of FreeBSD that most of you
seem to embrace in other connections. And the bottom line is that
most newbies end up elsewhere. If making FreeBSD more popular is
a priority, there is long list of issues that are more vital than
this detail that we are discussing in this thread.

Given that the project is run almost entirely by volunteers,
I suppose some disconnects are inevitable. One example: it's
considered very important for questions@ to be newbie-friendly,
to the point of accepting posts from non-subscribers, but it's
*not* considered important to tune up sysinstall to prevent
botches like installing a system that can't be booted because
it has no kernel.
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