Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 15:24 schrieb Peter Sutter:
[...] I agree with you, but we should be even more tolerant to newcomers and ignorants.
you're so right! On the other hand I can understand, if somebody looses his nerves from time to time and just wants to vent his anger...
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These newcomers need all the support we can give. Most of them have never subscribed to a mailing list before, so they would not know about 'netiquette'; but all of them are keen to adapt and learn. If they make mistakes like top posting or try to unsubscribe in an unsuitable way, we can tell them in a polite way; and they will learn.
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We have to ask ourselves why people want to unsubscribe from this list? Why would anyone unsubscribe? I can't imagine they are doing it because they know too much about SuSE Linux, but here are some reasons I can think off why they want to:
Because they moved back to windows because they could not handle Linux Because they could not get the answers here Because they moved to another distro Because they got peed off by the sometimes abusive comments and answers
[...] It can also be because filtering messages and ordering them in a threaded way seems to be a problem for many that have never seen/done this before. My Eudora on my old Win98 PC isn't even able to show a folder in threaded view and it cannot reply to a list. If you suffer from an email client like that
So very true. Opensuse was my first subscription, this list my second, I knew *nothing* about mailing lists before. Thanks to polite people here I've learned a lot - and still am learning :-) the many mails from such a list can easily outgrow. To me this was such a huge problem in the beginning that I almost unsubscribed... Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch