On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:28:19PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2007 16:11, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > 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. > > > > For the interested, A summary of why there is no newbie list can be found at > > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html > > under "Why is there no separate list for newbies? Can you create one? Should > I > create one?" >
Now how did you find that? I just tried using lynx from www.debian.org, followed the mailing list links and also tried lists.debian.org/debian-user I found the code of conduct but not the du-guidelines. Shouldn't it be easier to find? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
