Time to shut down this list?

[Nikolas Britton]

Joshua Tinnin wrote:

>On Monday 27 December 2004 11:33 pm, Wes Peters <wes at softweyr.com> 
>wrote:
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>>On Monday 27 December 2004 19:16, you wrote:
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>>>On Monday 27 December 2004 06:50 pm, Wes Peters <wes at softweyr.com>
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>>>>One of my ideas is to come up with a short, succint version of
>>>>the newbies list charter and to have it appended to every
>>>>message, as a list signature. Would any of you "frequent newbie
>>>>flyers" like to have a go at the text for this?   This gentle
>>>>reminder should inform them to seek help on technical questions
>>>>on the -questions list, and refer to the newbies list charter via
>>>>URL.
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>>>How about something like, "freebsd-questions is not a technical
>>>help or support list. See:
>>>http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ "
>>>
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>>>>*You* of all people should know where to find the official list
>>>>charter.  ;^)
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>>>Me, specifically? Well, yes, but I'm not sure why me, of all people
>>>...
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>>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresource
>>>s.html#E RESOURCES-CHARTERS
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>>Ah, sorry, I meant the inclusive "you" as in the previously
>>referred-to "frequent newbie flyers".  And perhaps another sentence
>>or two describing what the newbies list IS for?
>>
>>But thanks for stepping up on this, I'm sure you'll come up with
>>something good, communicate it to core@, and someone there will
>>shepherd it over to postmaster.  You see, I'm leaving on holiday
>>tomorrow morn...
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>I was going for the most brevity ... OK, then, ... hmmm ...
>
>"freebsd-questions is a general discussion forum for new FreeBSD users 
>to share their experiences and to help each other with non-technical 
>issues. It is not a technical help or support list. See:  
>http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ "
>
>I dunno. This part: "help each other with non-technical issues" sounds 
>not quite right, as people can answer broad technical questions here, 
>like whether it's better to use a GUI interface for system 
>administration. Am having trouble distilling a description down to one 
>sentence. Maybe that's alright and I'm just overthinking it. Will send 
>it out and see what you all think.
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Yea I understand why it doesn't make sense, oxymorons never do. You 
might also what to think about changing freebsd-questions to 
freebsd-newbies.