It's time to shut down this list.

[Nikolas Britton]

Chris Zumbrunn wrote:

>
> On Dec 28, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:
>
>> Thats fine sue but what are we going to do with the new people that 
>> are too overwhelmed, intimidated, or jilted (from past experiences) 
>> to post to the questions mailing list?
>
>
> Isn't the main reason why new users are intimidated to ask questions 
> on freebsd-questions because of the very existence of freebsd-newbies? 
> Because freebsd-newbies exists, the newbies feel that that's where 
> they belong. For the future new users, that will never have heard that 
> freebsd-newbies ever existed, it will be natural to ask questions on 
> freebsd-questions. Instead they will be intimidated to discuss 
> "specific technical issue" on freebsd-hackers ;-)
>
Yea I see your point but there's still the ones that feel overwhelmed by 
the volume of traffic on the questions list and to a lesser extent the 
jilted ones from being told to RTFM on linux type lists