If i'm out of line someone please let me know, don't want to offend any moderators. I kept thinking about some post talking about a debian newbie mailinglist.
Why would we want that ? I think it's a rather fascist thing to do, i've encountered this kind of nonsense on several other mailinglists and allways feel bad about it. Why make debian/linux or any other mailinglist an elite forum ? Can you imagine yourself way back when you started out using linux giving advice to people who were just trying their first install ? Bet you would have nuked a couple of systems before you got things running smoothly. People who oppose to newbies posting to a list should simply remove themselves from it or write some mailfilter to filter out newbie messages. I also wonder what the big deal is, if wouldn't take any intermediate user too long to answer the type of questions newbies are asking would it ? Maybe it would be a good idea for newbies to prefix there mails with NB : or Newbie : just like there exists a habit of using OT : for off-topic messages. This should also help out the people who simply don't want to be bothered with newbie questions. Regards, Joris
