On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:35:37 -0700
Randall R Schulz
I used to see this sort of criticism all the time on on the Cygwin list. Both that list and this one have some things in common. They are both high-volume lists, both cover a very broad range of issues with lots of subtleties and complexities and both have a wide range of knowledge and expertise among the participants. And both communities are forced by those circumstances to try to hold users in check from silly and ignorant practices in order to keep the list from devolving into such marginal usefulness that those with knowledge to share can't stand wading through the cruft and fluff to avail others of their insights and expertise.
Agreed!
SuSE is not a niche product for hackers and academics anymore. It's a major distro with enterprise and home desktop aspirations. Those users cannot be expected to have the same knowledge or posting skills as the traditional linux user and will simply say "screw it" and walk away. I don't think that benefits either them or us. Just my $.02.
If the list continues to move in the direction it's taken recently it will be the "hackers and academics" and the "traditional Linux user" (as you term us) who will walk- and then what will happen?
We don't expect people to have topic knowledge, or they'd be answering instead of asking. On the other hand it is entirely reasonable to expect (and, if necessary, demand) that people respect the rules of etiquette that are stipulated for this forum.
And "posting skills" really shouldn't be an issue. Shouldn't be, but are...
Agreed again! Terence