>I completely agree. That is why I was suggesting that a new list be >created for the dot net beginner. I see a lot of traffic from folks >coming over from VB that are just learning the ropes. At least 50% of >the traffic on this list should be posted to the Advanced list and this >list should be focused on the folks asking how to databind controls and >how to set focus to a control. > >By doing it this way, people such as yourself could basically ignore the >beginner list (unless you wanted to be a mentor to the new developers) >and focus on the advanced list.
If you ask me, you killed your own suggestion with a beginners mailing- list in your second paragraph, especially with your comment in the parenthensis. It's a fact that the number of experienced and qualified .net developers wont mentor/help on the beginners-only list, thus you will end up with a blind leads the blind situation which will just result in cross-posting to get the kin dof help you are looking for. What this mailing list needs is to stay in it's current form and shift over to a newsserver instead. I'm using the daily index version of this list becuase of the huge amount of traffic and I'm on a 56k modem. If people only had to download the header of each message and then the message body of only the post they are intressted in (like I do with the indexed subscription here) then the traffic would be reduced. And a newsgruop is a more convinient format of these kind of discussions. -- Andreas Håkansson Student of Software Engineering andreas (at) selfinflicted.org You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
