What Happened to the Newbies Mailing List?

[David Wolfskill]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:36:00PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 
> I have just noticed (yes, I've been a little out of touch)
> that the newbies mailing list disappeared in March or April
> of this year.
> 
> This is, probably, a good decision (technical questions
> were being asked, and often badly answered) but I'm just
> curious who decided and why.

Referring back to my notes from the time (Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:58:23
+0200), Wilko, wearing his "FreeBSD core team secretary" hat, sent a
note to admins@ informing us that Core had, after some debate, "decided
it does not add any usefulnes anymore" and requested that the list be
removed.

I did that shortly after receiving Wilko's message.

Peace,
david   (current hat: postmaster at freebsd.org)
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