When I attended the 2004 Open Source Conference, the negative feedback
about PLUG (mailing list) is the attitude of some supposed-to-be-gurus
that turn-off most newbies from the list. I hope that real gurus would
stay and help out the newbies, since that is the spirit of Free and
Open Source Software in the first place.
Right on. I remember all too well my first few posts in plug. All the groaning from some oldbies almost turned me off. Luckily, the other oldbies were more friendly. Heck, I don't even remember if they directed me to the newbie list the first time they replied!
The other posters here are right, newbies don't know any better, and they know *ONLY* of plug. They have no idea, usually, that there exists a plug-newbies list, so they post in the plug list first. I know, coz the same thing happened to me, too, 2 years ago.
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