On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:18:20 +0000 Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > [...] > > So does this mean that the Debian community, while helpful to > > newbies that know enough how to ask a question, would be happier if > > newbies who don't just went to one of those projects instead? > I hope not! Perhaps we need a debian-newbie-users list? It would need > some more-experienced users prepared to monitor the list and offer > "gentle" advice. The NewbieDOC project used to have a list like this. > Unfortunately, it ceased to function as it lost a critical mass of > more-experienced users, and had to be closed a couple of years ago. I suggested this myself about a year ago, but there are reasons not to do this. One of them is the reason your own list didn't work. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]