I agree:

Sacha Chua wrote:

> "Arnel G. Pastrana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Whatever you called it.. basta what i know is that you must have the
> > spirit on how Linus Tourvalds started Linux.......  which means he
> > has the spirit to help.... and share it to the world.....:)
>
> Yes, we have the "spirit to help and share it to the world", but that
> also doesn't mean that most of the other people on the main plug
> mailing list should have to receive messages about "how do I unpack a
> .tar.gz", and newbies shouldn't get intimidated by messages of a
> highly technical (or inflammatory) nature.
>
> There's a reason why we split the lists - so that people with the
> patience to deal with newbie questions can deal with them, and the
> people who already have too much mail as it is can deal with advanced
> questions if they want to.
>
> Besides, some of the discussions on plug get really flamey
> sometimes. <laugh> We wouldn't want to scare off all the newbies, now
> would we?
>
> So:
>
> newbie questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> oldbie questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In retrospect, perhaps it would have been a better idea to make it
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] From all
> the "That's a newbie question, go post it on ph-linux-newbie!" posts
> that have been going around, I think it's easier to tell more advanced
> people to mail to the correct mailing list.
>
> Hmmm. It might not be too late to make the shift. What do people
> think?  Please don't post any "I agree" or "I disagree" messages to
> the mailing list - you can send those votes to me, and I'll summarize
> it afterwards. Feel free to post "I (dis)agree because of <lengthy reason>,
> but <lengthy consideration>"-type messages.
>
> --
> Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette
> interests: emacs, linux, wearables, teaching compsci, making games
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