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Markus Gamenius wrote: | tir, 09.03.2004 kl. 13.03 skrev Andreas Schuldei: | |>Jonas, thank you for taking the efford of summarizing the thread |>from the norwegian list. |> |><sarcasm and annoyance> |>i read it partly but i did not get the |>impression that people really cared for input from other (english |>speaking) people and the competence level was not above average |>all the time, either. |> |>I wondered why the discussion was conducted on that list in the |>first place, and concluded it was more for entertainment and |>chit-chat because people would *of cause* not want to be rude by |>excluding anyone from the discussion by using "private" languages. |></sarcasm and annoyance> | | | Sometimes discussions like theis starts on the norwegian list because | the one who starts the discussion is no developer and/or do not know | about the developer list. Other times it is because they do not want to | write in english. So we are trying to force this kind of discussions | over to the right list ass we did this time. The problem is that we use | to much time before we do this. Working on it ;-)
Skolelinux being an open forum, I find it valuable to know more details of your last sentence, "working on it" (especially if you are referring to Skolelinux officially).
Personally I have found the following approach to be of best use (all items, in that order):
~ 1) Avoid responding to too technical stuff on user list ~ 2) Instead, post response on tecnical list ~ 3) Advertise on user list your posting on technical list ~ 4) Cc your technical posting to suspected non-developers ~ 5) In both postings offer norwegian translation upon personal request
That way you...
~ * Respect those uneasy with norwegian ~ * Respect those uneasy with english (unless you are too lazy) ~ * Respect users uninterested in technical details ~ * Respect developers not (yet) aware of the technical list ~ * Help switch list using curiousity (not yelling or force) ~ * Help avoid threads becoming pseudo-techical ~ * Help avoid laziness keeping a bad thread alive
In essense, you do much good and hurt only those being lazy and/or rude!
I deliberately post this to (what I consider) the technical list, as I do not want to bother users with its "technical details" ;-) .
In the above I refer to the norwegian [EMAIL PROTECTED] as "user list" and the english [email protected] as "technical list. I do not know if that interpretation is mine alone.
I propose the purposes of the two different lists (whatever they are officially) to be more aggressively advertised, especially upon wrong usage.
~ - Jonas
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