I feel that every posting to the list should have something useful to say, rather than providing someone for an opportunity to rant. There must be somewhere else for rants. Perhaps a write-only memory somewhere. I like my SuSE 7.0 LINUX, and would like to feel that I can learn something to my advantage from this list. There is another linux-newbie list elsewhere (amongst others) which are far more informative. They even manage to cover all the other distros (Red Hat, Caldera, and many others) and yet keep their traffic level well below that of this list. Please may we all offer something from which others may learn ? Or at least, request help from our more experienced Linux users. To the hard-pressed SuSE team, please keep trying ! 73 -- Geoff Bagley
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State the nature of the medical emergency. Seriously. I have been on this list for going on 3 years. It's always had it's mix of rants, information and other such things. It's a community, not a tech support line. Most of us DO NOT need newbie help and spend way more time helping then asking..so chill. I learned a lot from being on this list and sometimes I hit the D key...but for the most part it works out really well. I hope the way the users on the list police doesn't offend you. If you stick around we can teach you a lot...but it's not going to be like learning out of an old 60lb Unix book. ;) Regards, -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org
Absolutely agree- I've learned a lot and laughed a lot from this list. I merely delete the messages/threads the PITA occasionally raise, as well as the periodic rants about some aspect of SuSE that they don't like. If you don't like it, don't use it. Linux is about choice. Benjamin A. Rosenberg wrote:
State the nature of the medical emergency.
Seriously. I have been on this list for going on 3 years. It's always had it's mix of rants, information and other such things. It's a community, not a tech support line. Most of us DO NOT need newbie help and spend way more time helping then asking..so chill. I learned a lot from being on this list and sometimes I hit the D key...but for the most part it works out really well.
I hope the way the users on the list police doesn't offend you. If you stick around we can teach you a lot...but it's not going to be like learning out of an old 60lb Unix book. ;)
Regards,
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Benjamin A. Rosenberg
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Geoff Bagley
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jfweber@eternal.net
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Terence McCarthy