Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 04:20, you wrote: El lun, 16-08-2004 a las 09:08, Shlomi Fish escribió: Hi all! I noticed a trend when talking to some people face to face, and that is that many of them (and I'm referring to smart, expert, even full-fledged hacker people) stop reading the Linux-IL

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-18 Thread Ely Levy
I don't see what's the urge of pleasing everyone? each mailing list has its own crowd, there are debian-il mailing list hackers-il newbies and so on, there is no law against being on more than one mailing list, there is also linux-il-annonce which is just for important annoncements but seems not

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL: That only works in civilized countries. This is Israel and Jews like to argue (it's in our genes) No we don't! (sorry, couldn't pass up a Monty Python reference ;)). -- Nadav Har'El

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-17 Thread Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky
El mar, 17-08-2004 a las 01:43, Ira Abramov escribi: Quoting Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky, from the post of Mon, 16 Aug: In Mendoza, Argentina, we have succesufully reduced the SNR by creating a list that allows ANY discussion. When a flame is started in the lug list We just continue the

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-17 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky, from the post of Tue, 17 Aug: In Mendoza, Argentina, we have succesufully reduced the SNR That only works in civilized countries. I'm from Argentina, I know. Irony is like lego, and you gave me a wonderful block to build on :) did you saw any

[Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! I noticed a trend when talking to some people face to face, and that is that many of them (and I'm referring to smart, expert, even full-fledged hacker people) stop reading the Linux-IL mailing list after a while. Their reasons vary. Some of the things I heard: 1. Linux-IL is the core

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Mon, 16 Aug: Hi all! I noticed a trend when talking to some people face to face, and that is that many of them (and I'm referring to smart, expert, even full-fledged hacker people) stop reading the Linux-IL mailing list after a while. Their reasons

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote about [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL: I noticed a trend when talking to some people face to face, and that is that many of them (and I'm referring to smart, expert, even full-fledged hacker people) stop reading the Linux-IL mailing list after

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Aaron
Well, Here's how I feel. I am somewhere in between a newbie and a poweruser. Often the more technical things are above my head but I find that later I use that information and would sure miss it, as I would not enjoy having to subscribe to an extra list (I count 12 I am currently subscribed

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One option is to split this mailing list. One possibility would be: 1. linux-il - mailing list for QA and newbie questions.[1] Also announcements of events. (snip) First, the list was not supposed to be a newbie list in any case, so this first one

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Danny Lieberman \(Barak\)
] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL Quoting Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One option is to split this mailing list. One possibility would be: 1. linux-il - mailing list for QA and newbie questions.[1] Also announcements of events

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Omer Zak
Only now I noticed that the Linux-IL is overdue for the periodical discussion why people leave it, whether to split into more mailing lists or not, and whether to allow vi vs. emacs flamewars. See: http://oii.org/lists/lifecycle.html and share with your girlfriend/wife the sorrow of the bloody

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Aaron
This is most unfortuently true. I hate the rules but, my first month on a few of my lists I got offlist messeges telling me to read the rules. I understood the need for rules, and followed them. Aaron In my many years of mailing list and forum experience, I came to one sad conclusion: in order

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Aaron
After reading the above, I would vote to leave the list as it is. Aaron On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:18, Omer Zak wrote: Only now I noticed that the Linux-IL is overdue for the periodical discussion why people leave it, whether to split into more mailing lists or not, and whether to allow vi vs.

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Offer Kaye
Aaron wrote: After reading the above, joke If you're going to write the above, at least have the decency to bottom-post rather than top-post! /joke Yeah, yet another bottom-vs-top post flame :-) -- Offer Kaye = To unsubscribe, send

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread ik
Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! I noticed a trend when talking to some people face to face, and that is that many of them (and I'm referring to smart, expert, even full-fledged hacker people) stop reading the Linux-IL mailing list after a while. Their reasons vary. Some of the things I heard: 1.

Re: [Meta] Smart People Leaving Linux-IL

2004-08-16 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Alfredo Daniel Rezinovsky, from the post of Mon, 16 Aug: In Mendoza, Argentina, we have succesufully reduced the SNR by creating a list that allows ANY discussion. When a flame is started in the lug list We just continue the thread in that other list. That only works in civilized