On Saturday 03 June 2006 23:14, Renegade Penguin wrote: > Scott is right. Houghi, quit trying to defend yourself here. Just try > it his way for a while. > > That is MY experience - I side with Scott. > > RP > > houghi wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 04:48:07PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >>It's a middle ground that I've seen work well both to keep lists on topic > >> and to make people feel welcome. > > > >Unfortunatly I have see it fail on lists. People just kept posting more > >and more, because their questions where answerd anyway. I asume it is only > >logic that IF people give an answer that they point out the correct place > >as well. > > > >The only reason I can think of why people keep posting, even when asked > >not to do, is because they are getting answers. If you tell me the pub is > >closed and you keep giving me beer, I won't leave. I only leave when I can > >get (or take) any more beer. ;-) > > > >Other people look and see that questions are answerd anyway, so these > >people also have no need to go elsewhere. That at least is my experience. > > > >houghi
I agree, houghi's way is the only way that has worked. (IMHO the only one that will work here.). on the other hand: I agree people get the feeling they are being pushed off. I agree that the feeling is not nice, as I personally experienced it last week. Maybe we can cross post the users message for them? with a note like that is a lot shorter? Something like: In order to get help for you, we posted this message on the SUSE-E mailing list where the appropriate technical expertise is available to help you. Please look for the answers to this post at _suse-e_. (this is supposed to be a link of some sort.) ie. don't give the person the feeling he/she did something wrong. instead give the person we went out of our way to help them.... ==== I also agree with houghi's suggestion that we close this list infavor of a list named something like opensuse-community. I think that will help many of the "wrong posters" not to get the wrong list in the first place. Jerry P.S. I really think that giving answers on this list will kill it... my vote is NO --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
