In reply to Kelvin Teh's message, I am a VERY recent to Linux and this
list, having just gotten and loaded my Red Hat distribution last week, and
signed up for this list after that. I am not a newcomer to computing, with
about 25 years of experience programming for my physics research and education
(including a few years of UNIX experience).
I have been hearing good things about Linux for some time, and one of the
things that I heard was that the Linux community really acted like a community
in the best sense -- helpful to novices and techies alike. Consequently, I
have been taken aback by the number of sarcastic comments about those who have
forgotten how to unsubscribe from this list. Every list that I have ever been
on occasionally has queries from people who don't know how to get off. Sure
it's annoying, but to me it's even more annoying to see rude, sarcastic, snide
remarks on a list like this. If your overactive Y-chromosome compels you to do
it, okay, but if you add a simple comment about how to unsubscribe it may help
us all in the long run.
Ron Greene
Kelvin Teh wrote:
> I am a newbie to the Linux world and it is because my first job requires
> java that i subscribed to this list...I am also on other linux related
> mailing list and generally I feel the Linux community to be friendly and
> helpful. However, I find it very puzzling that the java-linux mailing list
> does not seem to fall into this description category. Before u click the
> reply button to flame me at least hear me out on some observations i have
> made...
