I believe if you go back to the 'newbie archive' from the mandrake home
page, you'll find a message in this thread that talks about newbies and the
importance of talking about every aspect of computing and how it compares to
the Linux- Mandrake model (not quite in those words). It's not off-topic to
talk about how other OS's compare because most people are still using
Windows if not dual booting.
Mike
> Aren't we all forgetting a couple of important issues here ?
> 1) What is the name of this group ?
> 2) Who hosts it ?
>
> It is my impression that Mandrake provided this platform for Mandrake
newbies
> to get and give assistance with problems that they might have, I feel that
> prolonged off-topic threads are an abuse of the service that they provide
at no
> cost to the user.
> To use the forum to post abuse is IMHO a shameful abuse of a valuable
resource.
> E mail addresses are visible in the headers, so can be abusive off-list
there is
> no need to lower standards by entering into flame wars, it serves no
useful
> purpose and only serves to discredit the group as a whole.
>
