Time to shut down this list?

[Tyler Gee]

I agree that -newbies is important for people who are otherwise too
intimidated to post to -questions or anything else.  I know that when
I first started (which was only a year ago), I *never* would have felt
comfortable posting to a regular list, not because people there were
necessarily mean but because I felt my questions were too stupid.

I think if you get rid of -newbies you are going to see a lot of
people too scared to ask questions which means they risk moving away
from FreeBSD or you are going to see -questions inundated with
questions that will annoy people who don't want to deal with questions
that newbies tend to have.

I don't know what the problem is as people can merely unsubscribe from
-newbies.  Personally I read through them and try to help people out
when I can.

Let's be honest, how else can we achieve our goals of world domination
if we are not nice to the little people. :)

Happy holidays all!

-wtgee


On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:33:52 -0800 (PST), Mervin McDougall
<mcd_advisory at yahoo.com> wrote:
> There is an old saying that goes, "Be nice to the
> persons  you meet on your way up,cause these are the
> same persons whom you meet on your down."
> 
> I myself am a noobie and I guess we all are on some
> level. Nobody knows everything there is to know about
> unix not a noobie or the most experienced kernel
> hacker. To continue the legacy of persons acquiring
> and learning freebsd you need to foster first that
> feeling that it is ok to learn and it is not for an
> elite few. Everyone has got to start somewhere for
> goodness sake.
> 
> But if you consider over time if you are going to need
> help from your user base to support you in any way,
> they are going to look back on freebsd more for how
> they were treated and how well they were attended to
> more than the request for help. They will be pouring
> out themselves to help even though they may not be the
> best programmer, kernel hacker, documenter or
> otherwise.
> 
> If we have to foster and maintain a community that
> will ensure that FreeBSD will be there for others to
> love and enjoy in the future we have to remember to do
> those little things like helping out those who are not
> as technically inclined to get up to speed.
> 
> 
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