On 2/10/06, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 10 Feb 2006 1:43 am, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > think people should notice the obvious difference in the attitude > > of both the original poster, who's a newbie asking what may seem > > like a stupid question to the experienced users, and these very > > experienced users who are replying > > OP is not a newbie - just new to gentoo. He posts correctly, > trimming the post and is responsive. He is just moving from > slackware to gentoo. Our problem here is ppl moving from doze to > linux. But this is not the basic problem. The basic problem is that > there are people of all levels in the same list. Newbies, > developers, hackers and gurus - 4 levels, and that leads to > conflict. We should seriously think of starting a 'freshers' list > where all beginner questions are asked and answered. Here only > senior members with the patience to handle these queries would join > and so there would be less of RTFM/STFW flames.
Hi Kenneth, We have been through the discussion of splitting the list on the basis various criteria twice. Both times the conclusions reached were that it will be counterproductive. I searched through the archives but could not find the thread. IF you are interested, you can search the archives to find the thread. AFAIK, this thread is about a year old. --> Vinayak H -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
