freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

[Murray Taylor]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 05:12, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 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.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > Freebsd-questions is wonderful and I find a lot of answers there, but the 
> > signal-to-noise is low when you are just looking for IT-oriented information 
> > regarding FreeBSD. Especially regarding systems implemented for an office/LAN 
> > environment.
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> Your question parses, but it is not clear what specific thing you have in mind 
> that would seperate an IT-oriented list from a non-IT oriented list.  Can you 
> either give an example question or two, or can you say why freebsd-questions 
> is *not* IT-oriented?
> 
> Or does your question mean you looking for a list whose members are mostly 
> sysadmins and network managers, rather than end-users?  FreeBSD doesn't really 
> make much distinction between an end-user and a sysadmin [1], but you might 
> find freebsd-stable or freebsd-isp to come closer to what you are looking for.
> 
> --
> -Chuck
> 
> [1]: Which can be benefit sometimes, or it can be a problem, especially for 
> novice users, but that's another topic.

I agree the the S/N ratio is [a] variable [b] generally high ...

However I also find that for a specific question posed by oneself,
the S/N ratio improves a lot with directed answers generally being quite
useful. Admittedly, sometimes they can be 'short and succinct' 
(read terse), especially if it is a common question for which the 
answer could have been filtered out of the preceeding 'noise'.

cheers
mjt

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