On Tuesday 05 April 2005 14:14, Dan Littlejohn wrote: > Maybe a third list should get created - mythtv-newbie > > Then folks would not be afraid to ask "I have no idea how to do this / > off topic questions" without shame. This would help the community by > helping newbies learn how to fix their boxes and people could be > directed off this list there that ask those questions. I know I > myself would use it. There are other lists, but people know stuff > here and that is gold.
The big problem with a -newbie list is this: who's going to answer the
questions? Its kinda like the blind leading the blind. I think Isaac is on
the money: people need to read before posting. I don't suggest reading all
your Myth email before posting (because there's a lot), but everyone, please
search the mailing list archive before posting! That should head off things
like 100 different Qt-highlighted-button threads.
> On Apr 5, 2005 3:35 PM, Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 04:33 pm, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:44 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > > No. Geez, people, if you can't or don't want to read, don't join a
> > > > mailing list.
> > >
> > > All due respect Isaac but this is a very high volume list, and what
> > > makes it worse is that the S:N ratio is not really that good. There
> > > is, IMHO, much too much "how do i install an rpm", "how do i set up a
> > > cron job", "how do i reboot my system" kind of completely
> > > off-mythtv-topic threads that people should be taking elsewhere.
> > >
> > > I'm not surprised some people miss out some of the good tidbits amongst
> > > all of the deleting.
> > >
> > > But on the other hand, yes, too much not-searching-before-you-post goes
> > > on too. I guess everyone is lazy. :-)
> >
> > Right. It wouldn't be quite so high volume if people would bother to
> > read before posting.
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