What about technical consultants who generate about 40% of their revenue in supporting the GSP industry?
The laxidasical manner in which many people operate will never change. Moreover, it's not unlikely that many of the stupid questions come from GSP employee's too. What you really need is one single place to answer people with when "RTFM" would be appropriate, and for that place to contain a very simple how-to. Get building on serverwiki. You may also want to take the purely commercial point of view, that helping anyone on this list is in fact assisting the competition, and as such simply stop contributing here. This isn't what I'd recommend though. A prodominantly mature attitude and willingness to learn will go a LONG way in maintaining the correct atmosphere on any mailing list. On 10/14/05, aXeR (AmmoBOX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > I'm sure it has been discussed on numerous occasions before, I've even heard > from some sources that it may be happening, but I would like to raise the > topic again. > > Please valve, can you create a GSP only mailing list, its becoming more and > more a case where the Linux list is becoming a technical support mailing list > for people who cant be bothered to RTFM and do their own research on how to > (for example) install FC4 onto their server as they are 'new to Linux > > Don't get me wrong, this isn't a flame, I'm almost 100% sure that the more > technical issues would get solved a lot faster in a GSP only list, I also > think a lot more people would contribute to the list if it wasn't full of > useless flame threads such as 'I'm getting lag since the update, what has > valve done now' or 'Mani-mod isn't working, ffs valve' and the alike that the > average Joe Bloggs posts on here at times. > > Obviously the most important thing would be to vet people signing up to the > GSP mailing list to make sure they are who they say they are (maybe a > companies house check up on the company registration number they would > possibly need to supply?) it would unfortunately mean a little verification > work at first but I think the benefits from a new list would be great! > > What opinions do other regular, proper, list users have? > ----- > Jon Roberts > Technical Director > AmmoBOX Networks (Ltd) > Web: www.ammobox.net > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
