Hi, Ok, first up, sorry for being unclear (and basically have nothing significant to say). I was a little ticked off and I guess I could not control myself. > What you want to say??? Can you please put it clearly.. You are adding > many issues in this and loosing the original focus.
ok. first point: people insisting that what they suggest is the best way to do things, and anything else is dumb. classic example, the rpm discussion. why does the guy want to double click on the rpm file? why does he not go to the console, type 'rpm -ivh filename' and install the package? That seems to be the right thing to do... and so on. my point? please be more open. Not everyone wants to be a unix guru. Most of the users just want an OS on which they can run their applications. > again and again. After replying to such questions many times, people > just get fed up and probably reply RTFM or may be even more harsh > replies are possible. ah. second point, and I think I totally messed this up. I totally support the view that very common questions should not be asked on the list at all. At the same time, dont expect the people to RTFM, really. (This comes more out of personal experience as I try and persuade people I meet to use Linux. They wont RTFM. So? Stop expecting them to.) Unless the topic is something they have anything to do with, they're not going to RTFM. That is the fact. They'll just ask the question, get no answer, and go away and use something else. my point? Lets have a FAQ. Put all the common questions and answers there. Direct any questions on the list to the FAQ. This way, atleast the person gets a quick answer... even usenet lists have FAQ's which people are urged to go to first. (Abhijit(BAIN) made a great start some days ago with that wiki) Important to note: This is not a, developer, or an enthusiast list. A school linux user group's list would be such a list, where using the normal usenet etiquette would be paramount. Not here. There's more 'users' here (i hope) and we need to be careful and not scare them off. If people want a specific 'gurus' list, there was a suggestion some time ago to have such a separate list (maybe there already is and I'm begin totally ignorant). We could move ahead with that. > > Lets hope there will be more givers than takers. > Could not agree more. > I am sorry if this reply sounds rude/harsh. > It needed to be. I needed a lesson :), and thanks for that. Sagar -- Sagar Gokhale -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
