Time to shut down this list?

[Tyler Gee]

However, to play Devil's Advocate, I think that Greg's original point
is valid in as much as I notice that -newbies doesn't necessarily
generate a lot of discussion whereas something like bsdforums.org does
see a lot of obviously newbie questions.  In fact, I have answered far
more newbie questions on that forum than I have even seen on -newbies.
 Does that mean we should disband the list or redraft the description?
 I am not entirely sure because of that "comfort" that is supplied the
very first time you are reading about the install and you see the
-newbies list.  Furthermore, I am assuming that all of the questions
on -newbies are archived as part of the "official" correspondence of
FreeBSD, which is of legacy value also.

Wait a minute, I apparently switched from devil's advocate for Greg
back to my support of -newbies. Hmmmm.  A little too much bailey's in
my holiday coffee this morning.

-wtgee


On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:12:09 -0800, Bill Campbell <freebsd at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Eric wrote:
> >How about rename this list "Newbie Questions" and just go on trust that
> >the people asking the questions are really newbies.
> 
> I wouldn't want to change the list name, but the description provided on
> the Mailman listinfo page might be changed.  My reluctance may be because
> I'm a Mailman newbie, and don't know how to transfer things like the
> archives from an old list to the new one (or how to import ten years of
> Majordomo archives into the Mailman list that replaced it :-).
> 
> ...
> 
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