29 Dec
2003
29 Dec
'03
15:56
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 07:25, Nick Selby wrote:
Well. At the risk of getting flamed myself (I wrote and discarded this earlier but since it's come up again I have re-written it) and at the risk of stating the obvious:
Well said, Nick. If this were a developer's list, then we would expect subscribers to know what's going on but this is a user list, a place where we *expect* subscribers who have only the vaguest notion of appropriate behaviour. These subscribers should be handled gently since they are the ones that will take Linux and Open Source into the mainstream. Don Henson