On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:18 PM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir, > > 2013/9/16 Arun Khan <[email protected]> >> >> We can discuss this ad infinitum. The newbie expectation (from my >> perspective) is that senior/experienced users must bend / bow to them, >> hold their hands and spoon feed them. > > Newbies never expect answerers to bend or bow. All they expect is Answer / > Solution to their Questions / Problems. > Infact, if your answer satisfies their needs, they will repesct their > seniors more.
I am actually with Arun here and probably his reply was misunderstood in many ways causing this email. One thing needs to be noted here. This list is not a free or paid technical support forum. Almost everyone who has been in the list for some time is an enthusiast. They try to help others with their own experience and knowledge out of their own interest and generosity, not with the intent to gain respect or something in that direction. The only thing we insist on this list is to do prior homework before asking questions or for help on this list. Even when the OP doesn't do that, almost always someone asks the right questions to get more information to be able to help. What the newbie posters should realize is that they should enough groundwork and follow-up and not expect people on this list to give spoon-feeding solution. There is no obligation to give the answers and whoever tries to help cannot be blamed here. The newbies tend to just look for the answers to their questions and send everything else to /dev/null which imho is a very bad thing causing a lot of such problems. The main theme behind mailing list guidelines is to help the people on the list to be able to help the posters with their questions and problems. They are merely to maximize the chance of getting a solution to the question and at the same time not to irritate thousands of subscribers by sending emails in SMS lingo or repeatedly turning deaf ears to follow the guidelines. In mailing lists, the conversations are archived and there is absolutely no need to top post and quote all the emails in a thread with every reply. It is also considered a waste of bandwidth by a lot of people. Interleaved, trimmed posting is easier for conversations and for this reason we recommend it heavily on this list. I feel very sad that there are way too many meta discussions on this list these days for a variety of reasons that lead to nothing constructive. And for your query on this list being restricted to software professionals and enthusiasts, my answer is that it is open to everyone who is interested in free software in one way or the other. Even as a Mechanical engineer you are welcome to be on this list and participate. A shining example in this direction is the late KG who was a lawyer by profession but was a free software enthusiast who participated actively in a lot of FOSS communities and contributed in many ways. Thanks & Regards, Guruprasad _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
