As a newbie I'd like to respond to this subject. This group of dedicated
professionals have taken the time to answer many newbie questions for me
for which I will be forever grateful. They are civilized; educated;
knowledgable and genuinely nice people who do not deserve to be maligned
for repetitive threads or long replies.
I can learn something new from every message if I chose to read it. I do
not need programing tools or server scripts, I need the basics! Yet
programmers, IP's and sys admins take the time to help me navigate this
strange new minefield called Linux. These folks earned the respect of
their peers and should be given the same respect here.
I hope some day to be able to respond in kind and I genuinely hope to be
able to return to the community what was given so freely to me today. In
the meantime I'm going to shut up and learn. Who knows, if I live long
enough I may need Apache in my teepee or a quick script too.
This group does it better (than the others I've been associated with) in
the least amount of time with the least amount of fuss. I'm grateful
this list is here and I'm proud to be associated with them.
Everyone has an opinion and this is mine. If you want to flame me,
please do, but leave it off the list.
Pj
Ivan Trail wrote:
>
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > And what is this long-running modem brand talk? May we please discuss
>Linux-related issues?
> > Maybe people are uncomfortable to speak of what they really need for fear of being
>flamed as
> > newbies, a practice of =assholes= who stink pretty bad after a while. (yeah, I
>said that)
>
> I agree. I was on the newbie list for about a month and got tired of having
> 80-100 emails to sort through on the subject "installing linux". The list has
> it's place, and was a great source of help but after I got it installed I
> couldn't get a decent response on a tougher question. Here I have answered
> most of my problems by reading what other people have asked.
>
> I am not trying to start another flame, but here is my suggestion to remedy
> this problem:
>
> Impliment several, more specific, mailing lists. ie. one for installation
> help, one for driver development, one for people who actually like too much
> caffiene ;^) You get the point. I used to ber on atleast four different
> mailing lists from Red Hat at any one time. the redhat place has probably
> fifteen to twenty different lists to choose from. So maybe some of you experts
> in a specific area of linux could volunteer to host a mailing list. I would do
> so but I can't even find actors to help with the scripting language thing, thus I am
>far from an expert.
>
> just my two cents worth, with NO REFUNDS!
