On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:36:31AM +0200, Aaron Craig wrote:
> >At 23:24 08.06.2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >If you don't know how to manage your mail or aren't willing to learn then
> >you probably don't have any business joining a mailing list and then
> >whining about it on the list.
>
> <eyebrows raising>
>
> Doesn't this run dangerously close to an elitist attitude that we of the
> Perl community are trying to rid ourselves of?
Just to be clear, we of the Perl community are not trying to rid ourselves
of elitist attitudes. The reason the perl-beginners list was started (as
far as I understand it) is to provide an area where the elitist attitudes
are put aside in order to assist people that are new. perl-beginners is
just one list, containing just a few users in the massive Perl community; it
does not speak for the entire community.
Furthermore, there is a purpose to elitist attitudes; they enforce a minimum
level for a user to attain in order to communicate in a given forum. This
is desirable in certain cases; p5p shouldn't be full of people asking for
basic Perl help. Where elitist attitudes become offensive is when they turn
into flames, but that doesn't mean elitist attitudes should be done away
with entirely.
If the reply issue is really difficult for new users to deal with, why is it
everyone who is complaining about it has already found a workaround? I
understand that I wouldn't have seen such replies, but someone by now should
have, or at the very least the list maintainers should've received a
complaint. Is there anyone on the list who -can't- handle replying to the
list correctly, or is this just a straw man put up by people who would just
rather not deal with it?
I'm not trying to be insulting or anything, but is this truly an issue, or
just an annoyance?
Michael
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