Hello Noam,
No, I was not offended.
The simple truth is that if there were no Linux-IL subscribers who are
very unfriendly to clueless newbie questions, the list would have been
flooded by such questions. In such a situation, the more experienced
people would not have followed, or contributed to the list, leading to its
demise.
You (and other newbies) were and are most welcome to send personal E-mail
messages to volunteer Linux-IL participants (including me) with your
questions. This way only one (or perhaps two) participants would spend
time reading a newbie question, rather than the entire mailing list
membership. The load on any experienced participant wouldn't have been
excessive, if the questions are distributed among them in a more-or-less
even way.
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> Omer Zak wrote:
>
> > Does the following exchange mean that an uncoordinated gang of clueless
> > newbies can get away with flooding the Linux-IL mailing list by their
> > "<SOB>The 'type' command does not work for me in Linux, how can I see
> > the contents of a text file?</SOB>" like questions, provided that they
> > preface their silly questions by the disclaimer "Yes, I am a clueless
> > newbie AND I am ashamed of this, but..."?
> >
>
> Ok, sorrrrrrry offending you. I knew it was a silly question. I know how to do
> much more sophisticated stuff, but I got stuck on this, the arrogance of people
> like you brought the world to where it is. Good that there are people who are
> much more decent, non arrogant and want to help, just the opposite from you.
--- Omer
Who gets THREE copies of several Linux-IL related announcements:
-->linux-il@...
-->iglu@.......
-->ivrix@......
which reinforced his opposition to the idea of splitting between
linux-il and iglu mailing lists.
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