On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:08:28PM +0100, Ninad Purohit wrote: > can any one classify please who's a newbie or who's a > geek for that matter? I always thought these terms > were relative. How exactly do u qualify to be a geek? > r there any exams to be given or any knockout bouts to > select the geeks?
I am with you here. I don't think it's possible to classify people as newbies/geeks. In my opinion, question posers are best judges of their questions and it should be upto them to decide which category does their question fit in. > do geeks know all and newbies know nothing? > also is this mailing list owned by somebody? > some people talk about banning other people, r those > the owners? > what gives some people the right to look down upon > others? Everyone has a right to form their opinions about others and can voice these thoughts if they deem necessary. Besides, bandwidth isn't cheap. In my own case, I don't _CARE_ for the URL of Mr. X's resume or who his potential employer is. If I wanted to know more about people, I would not look for them on mailing list. I joined this list so that I can have my questions answered and get to know of other interesting questions/debates about the technical/ethical issues surrounding GNU/Linux. And if I see that my bandwidth is getting wasted in downloading emails that are utterly useless to me and the cause of the list, I think I have the full right to be angry about it. >.so what is this, open source closed community? > people mail their doubts and of the ten mails they > might receive only 2 try to solve them. the remaining > tell them to top or bottom post/laugh at their > ignorance . This is a community of users that is very vocal about its beliefs. If you want to equate vocality with narror-mindedness then so be it. > ===== > ninad purohit > ninadonline(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in > have a nice day :-) -- Bhargav Bhatt, Columbia University. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
