-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Personally I think there's the odd side issue that creeps in, I've helped a couple of gsps for several years now, but get the impression some other people from some gsps that in reality they don't really want to help others in a competetive business anyway, especially "newcommers". Otherwise they give some of the "secrets of their trade" for want of a better description, and tend to find those who leave the lists (don't know that many anyway, just a couple) essentially don't want to help anyone. You can't persuade people to help, either they want to or they don't typically, and I'd guess most people do exactly as they want the list to be, i.e they help because they will get help too themselves. I don't really see the issue, if there were los of posts asking about fedora core 4 or something then yes, but also you can just say off topic and refer them elsewhere. I'd personally rather see a pleasant "sorry this list isn't for this, but try www.xxxxx.com <http://www.xxxxx.com> which is more likely to get the answer for you", and would never complain if I had one or two of them in the mailbox each day I had to delete. Just my two penneth. (in other words keep it as it is unless it becomes bogged down with more off topic posts).
On 10/14/05, JCHost.net - Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Agreed. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Gurney > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 3:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] GSP only list > > What about those of us who aren't clueless, but also aren't GSPs? Do we > get stuck with a list where useful technical discussions don't happen? > Sorry, this sounds elitist and a bad idea to me. If Valve were to run a > GSP only list, this list would suffer greatly, and I'd be willing to bet > a large number of subscribers are hobbyists who run servers rather than > GSPs. > > This list has a low count of OT posts compared to other lists I've been > on. I don't think it's bad enough to warrant caring about, but why not > try and find a way to fix the problem rather than ignoring it and thus > making things worse for the rest of us? > > James > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
