freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

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Jim Durham wrote:
> I am the sys admin for a company of about 500 people and I am running 
> Sendmail/Procmail/Spamassassin, Samba, Apache/PHP/MySql on FreeBSD..about 8 
> servers in 3 offices across the US and soon to be more.
<...>
> I was wondering if there is any mailing list or newsgroup devoted to IT on 
> FreeBSD? Google is not returning any hits on this, nor the listing on 
> freebsd.org. 

I'm not really understanding the distinction that you're looking for. 
For FreeBSD-specific technical discussions, this is the place. 
Applications of course have their own lists, which are obviously more 
appropriate for application-specific questions.

For broader discussions, perhaps regarding best practices in system 
administration, commercial backup recommendations, etc, I find SAGE (the 
System Administrators Guild) to be an extremely valuable resource. The 
community seems roughly split between the educational and corporate 
sectors, with a very high level of signal. The topics covered on the 
SAGE mailing list are of high relevance to the profession and practices 
of system administrators, especially for someone with a network such as 
yours.

http://www.sage.org

Cheers,
Sebastian