* Jake Pumphrey (jake.pumphrey@btopenworld.com) [031005 13:17]:
I'm sorry this has happened Ben. Surely newbies can have passion too?
Newbie = New to the list, not to Linux. ;)
Judging from the posts in this OT thread, it's questions which AREN'T along the lines of: "Why X doesn't work" that meet with disapproval. You can't have a list which insists on being technical only, without getting questions like "why doesn't X work" surely?
I never said that you would have a tech list without those questions. I said that without the sense of community that this becomes just a helpdesk list and that doesn't interest me. I've answered so many X and ppp questions in the last 6 years it makes my head spin. ;)
I hear what you're saying though... and I'm sympathetic. I guess linux in general (and SuSE in particular in this context) are changing fast... and "your" mailing list is changing with it. Perhaps this is what drives interested parties to ever more "difficult" and obscure distros?
Yeah. The list changed but what I'm advocating is that people calm down with the ridged requirements of what they feel this list should be. It's not just a technical list or a free for all list. But should be a mixture of both so that a feeling of community exists. The suse-ot list is a joke and I know I've treated it as a "whatever I wanna say noiser list" because that's what it is..it's for all the sludge that doesn't need to be on this list. But a friendly debate about how RH differs from SuSE is fine in my eyes for this list because it helps newcomers from RH or another operating environment get a fell for why SuSE rocks over what their use to..without all the sludge of the ot list. :)
Speaking as a newbie, I hope to God you people who know what you are doing stick around. 8-)
I most like will.. but that's always subject to debate. ;) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.