Like mots of the other threads on PLUG, this is alo leading to nowhere. To be very true i donot disagree with AG. I wanted to take this up sometime. Rather than going deep in thread and answering the posts that talk abt nuthing good i will stick to the original issue raised in first mail. Note : My views are totally mine and everyone has a right to disagree with these.
I think there some basic rules a person should follow(be he l33t or novice). L33ts: 1. IF you thing a post is rediculous, dont answer the post, just for the heck of doing it. It is better to ignore it. This kind of posts include for which the answer should be RTFM. Stick to it and keep you inbox clean. 2. Try to stick to the original issue in the posts. If a post is going too much away from the topic, Modrators please lock the topic. 3. Helping a newbie is a nobel job. Think of him as a person who is willing to learn. who has chosen to choose. He is at a stage where you were 2-3 years before.He has taken an initiative, lets try to help him. I know sometimes the answer to the question he has asked is very simple. But he actually DIDNOT KNEW that. Answer his question, and give him a way to solve his problems. Novice : 1. You have a problem, google has a solution. Try googling, before asking the questions. 2. Nobody knew linux when he was born. Everyone has learnt it the hard way. Everone faced the problems, but the victory is in sorting it out and not to give up. Be it windows or be it linux, both have a unique domain of problem sets. But the solutions to linux problems are more logical and sensible (This is pretty much true, in windows sometime the only solution is rebooting without any logic). Linux is more about logic and how things work. You have a problem, sit back think how the process is done and where the problem could be. Solving linux problems by yourself is probably the best way to learn it. 3. Linux is not about cramming or knowing commands. Never CRAM linux command for doing certain operations, you will fall flat. You dont ever need to learn all the command options, there is a "man" to help you out. just my $0.02 On 8/13/05, Sagar Gokhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I know that messages get rejected just because the reply starts at the > > > > top rather than *after* the original post (which in itself is > > > > ridiculous rule, but I respect it none-the-less) > > > > > > Why is it ridiculous ? > > > > because most standard mail clients, like outlook as well as gmail, > > start the editing on top of the original email. > Really bad excuse for not following rules. > > because people start writing and reading from top to bottom. > The arguement in fact emphasizes bottom posting. Doesn't it make more > sense to read the oldest content first to the most recent content > (therefore, in the right chronological order) ? > > > I think we might be loosing (possiblly technically) good people's help > > due to 'ridiculous' rules. > Most people who know a lot about stuff also know and follow usenet > posting etiquette. > > > > > I also said that although I personally don't like the rule, I'm > > abiding by it. BTW, I didn't mean the rule is ridiculous, but the fact > > that message gets rejected, is ridiculous. > > > > Are you moderator , who made this rule ? > No, he did not make this rule. I'm sure this link has been posted here > a bazillion times, but here it is again. > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html > > > I can guess why this rule might have been put in place, i guess that > > for people who read mail archives, it makes sense to read the context > > first and *then* the reply, but I'm guessing that that number would be > > fewer than regular members who have read the original query already. > > As for the "regular members who've read the original query", no one > has time to go through each email every day. Generally, while reading > threads, it is quite useful to ignore earlier mails in a long thread > and directly read some later email in which case, it is very useful to > have some context to work off. > > ~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. > -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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.
