freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

[Jim Durham]

On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:15 pm, list at mindling.com 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.
>
> <...>
>
> > 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.

I guess I would have to say that the niche I am talking about is supporting 
applications of a corporate/business nature on FreeBSD. 

>
> 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
>

Good suggestion. I will check that out.

Thanks!

-Jim