Basil Chupin wrote:
Brian K. White wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
The original posting went to both this list and -project.
So, any responses also should have been sent to this list, no?
Why? I'm all for this idea but until now I hadn't responded here. I went to the irc channel mentioned in the original post and said so directly, and and had a little opening discussion in real-time.
Brian, I'm not really sure what you are trying to convey here in your response.
However, if you are trying to put forward the idea that there was the opportunity to use an IRC channel to discuss this topic then please understand that not everyone has the means to be able to access IRC - let alone have the ability to access this forum other than using a dial-up connection.
(BTW, are you the Brian White who was providing the tutorials on Linux some years ago and to which I was a subscriber?)
BC
I was saying that I don't see at all why all responses should have to be here. He made a suggestion about forming an advocacy group and asked for any interested people to contact him. Which I did. That was a valid response to the post which did not appear here. One might very well ALSO say something here like "yeah great idea" just for the heck of it and to tell everyone else here that you too like this idea, but the primary and ongoing discussion of the idea does not have to take place here and probably shouldn't. If the idea goes anywhere someone should probably set up a seperate mail list, not actually on or hosted by opensuse either. An irc channel is just a way to converse right now using an existing facility without having to set up a mail list and just happened to be convenient for me too. My name is Brian White, but no, no tutorials. I have answered many questions over the years on a few mail lists and newsgroups, almost exclusively relating to sco unix (& xenix), linux, freebsd, and a few software packages that run on same, and a few of those posts have been slightly popularised in the form of being turned into articles on pcunix.com, but no I never wrote any official series of tutorials. Merely sometimes when I answer a good question (or when I get annoyed at reading too much blind-leading-the-blind and answer a poor question by throwing it away and showing both the correct question and the answer), it can come out somewhat like a tutorial or a lecture because I try not to be lazy and give a quick answer that I know will be right in one case and wrong in all others, and so I have to give not only answer A for condition A, I have to try to explain that there even is such a thing as conditions B, C, ..., Z, lambda, Mu, Pi, the-artist-formerly-known-as-Prince, etc... and how to recognize them, and what rules govern finding the other correct answers for those other conditions. And then I actually DO at least one example on some machine of my own and cut & paste the screen shots to show exactly what I mean and also to prove that it really works and that there aren't say, typo's in there. I never figured out how to give a correct answer to a technical problem that didn't involve spidering out to numerous other areas that all touch and affect the item at the heart of the question. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org