On 09/12/11 11:02, Linux Tyro wrote:
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
wrote: You don't want that. A list is only useful if there are people there to *answer* questions; that only happens if the subscriber count is large and wide-ranging.
And what is a "home user" question? Seems that topic overlaps with lots of other uses [printing, file sharing, X-doesn't-work, etc...]
And yes it is understood that once there are many users then the list is created. Most of the people I have seen on openSUSE list here are either experiences Linux users or those who know all things in Linux, but I have seen very few newbies (like me) who directly come to openSUSE.
For all the well-known names who post here, I'll bet there are many more lurkers who benefit from listening to the conversations/following the threads without actually posting a message themselves. A large proportion of those will be (relative) newbies. So, your suggestion for a new mailing list would end up duplicating what we have here. Please reply to the list, which I follow, I don't want off-list replies, thank you. Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop Distro: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.7.2 (4.7.2) Uptime: 06:00am up 15 days 15:36, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.23, 0.87 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org