On Saturday 03 June 2006 23:14, Renegade Penguin wrote:
Scott is right. Houghi, quit trying to defend yourself here. Just try it his way for a while.
That is MY experience - I side with Scott.
RP
houghi wrote:
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 04:48:07PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
It's a middle ground that I've seen work well both to keep lists on topic and to make people feel welcome.
Unfortunatly I have see it fail on lists. People just kept posting more and more, because their questions where answerd anyway. I asume it is only logic that IF people give an answer that they point out the correct place as well.
The only reason I can think of why people keep posting, even when asked not to do, is because they are getting answers. If you tell me the pub is closed and you keep giving me beer, I won't leave. I only leave when I can get (or take) any more beer. ;-)
Other people look and see that questions are answerd anyway, so these people also have no need to go elsewhere. That at least is my experience.
houghi
I agree, houghi's way is the only way that has worked. (IMHO the only one that will work here.). on the other hand: I agree people get the feeling they are being pushed off. I agree that the feeling is not nice, as I personally experienced it last week. Maybe we can cross post the users message for them? with a note like that is a lot shorter? Something like: In order to get help for you, we posted this message on the SUSE-E mailing list where the appropriate technical expertise is available to help you. Please look for the answers to this post at _suse-e_. (this is supposed to be a link of some sort.) ie. don't give the person the feeling he/she did something wrong. instead give the person we went out of our way to help them.... ==== I also agree with houghi's suggestion that we close this list infavor of a list named something like opensuse-community. I think that will help many of the "wrong posters" not to get the wrong list in the first place. Jerry P.S. I really think that giving answers on this list will kill it... my vote is NO --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org