On Thursday 25 May 2006 12:30, houghi wrote:
> You can blame the wrong-posters for not knowing what the openSUSE project
> is, or you can go and explain what this list is about in a way that
> everybody understands it and people get it.
>
> People download from openSUSE.org and have an issue with their product
> which they think is called openSUSE, so they go to the lists and see that
> it is about opensuse project.

Yes *some* people do think that SUSE Linux is in fact openSUSE Linux, despite 
the very first paragraph on openSUSE.org which states otherwise, and despite 
the product itself always being called SUSE Linux, with a SUSE Linux filename 
on the ISO and a SUSE Linux splash screen and a SUSE Linux everything...

> I would not think ingoing to suse-linux-e if I had an issue with something
> I downloaded from openSUSE. I go there if I download from SUSE.

On the other hand I would. 

I wouldn't look for a mailing list called Macromedia after I downloaded 
Dreamweaver, I would use the dreamweaver list ;)

http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#Mailing_Lists

The rather large page-wide notice in yellow with a large (i) information icon 
asking people to post to the correct list, and the description beside each 
list stating its purpose would lead me to post to suse-linux-e.

I understand your intentions for wanting to educate people about the 
differences between openSUSE.org and SUSE Linux and it's admirable but until 
such time as they learn to help themselves by reading the help that's offered 
once in a while; I shall simply send them on their way with a pointer to the 
right place.

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