One or Four?
Daniel Staal
DStaal at usa.net
Sun Feb 19 16:12:13 UTC 2012
--As of February 19, 2012 3:30:15 PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey is alleged to
have said:
> Beside the point: the Wrong list was posted to.
> questions@ list was created to help beginners,
> not to debate & invite votes to determine future design.
>
> FreeBSD lists have remits so people can read & write lists most
> tuned to interests. Tossing non beginner support topics in questions@
> deprives other lists. Not all on hackers@ current@ & the many other
> list want to be on questions@ & vice versa.
>
> Please read list remits & subscribe & post most appropriate list per
> topic.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
I don't get 'beginners' from 'User questions and technical support'. It's
probably the best place for most beginner's questions, but that isn't the
same as 'the list is for beginners'. Hackers@ might have been appropriate
for this question, but it's not really a *technical* question: It's a
*preference* question. As such asking the group of general users isn't a
bad idea, as it's their preferences that the question was aimed at...
It was a question for the users of FreeBSD. Adressing it to the list for
user questions may be an interesting interpretation of the grammar, but
it's not an invalid one.
Daniel T. Staal
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