Hi all. On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:08:16AM -0500, Dot Dot wrote: > 2. Please dont intimidate us with strict rules for sending a mail to LUG mailing > list. > Let us feel free to ask questions, even if it looks like trivial to geeks. We > understand that your time is valuable. But we would like to request you to take some > time out to sort out our issues. I understand it when you get irritated seeing a mail > seeking job. But let us be happy that there are people out there looking for a job in > Linux. We are growing. Let us not think that they are not upto our standards. They > didnt get a chance to understand Linux earlier.
Exactly. No one should be intimidated by strict rules. So, a simple rule could be to mail to specific mailing lists, where no one would really bother about certain criteria not being fulfilled ( top-posts, invalid subject ) but go ahead and reply, *and*, maybe, remind about etiquettes etc. So, if on a particular day, some of us are busy and don't want to read "general" mails, they can simply ignore mails on a particular mailing list, but read and reply to the 'more geeky' stuff. > 3. We will be sad if you start a new mailing list for linux gurus. We will feel left > alone. I thought we want to make people aware of Linux and encourage them to use it. > Not to create groups of geeks and newbies. Please dont discriminate. Try to help us > solve our trivial issues. No one stops the 'newbies' from joining the 'geeky' list. But the 'geeks' have a choice, for one, to read only such mails (and of course, no one said that the 'geeks' should not be members of the 'general' mailing list). The 'newbies' can subscribe to the 'geekies' in a 'read-only' mode (self-imposed), and then start mailing once they are sure about the hows/whys/whats. The 'geekies' list can have stricter impositions for compliance (whatever). My 2 paise. -- jaju -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
