tzafrir, if someone had the brains to reply with what you just wrote in the first place, we wouldnt get so far with this. explaining yourself clearly...isn't this what it was all about ? ;)
understood - thank you. On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 00:05:25 +0200 (IST) > From: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tal Amir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Linux-IL Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Flaming newbies (was Re: Hebrew in Konqueror) > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Tal Amir wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > > > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:03:46 +0200 > > > From: Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Flamingnewbies (was Re: Hebrew in Konqueror) > > > > > > On 2002 January? 16 ,Wednesday 18:05, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > That's what gnubies-il is for. > > > gnubies-il? ha... this list is dead, it has a post of 10 messages per month. > > > Why newbies are afraid from this mailing list? (i subscribed there after I > > > got flamed for too stupid questions, like "install the -devel rpm"). > > > What can be done to get newbies subscribe into gnubies-il, instead of > > > linux-il for the first time? > > > > > > to tal: don't get offended dud... > > > > not offended, sick and tired is more like it... > > > > when you go to an auto repair shop, do you get busted asking how to change > > a tier ? do the send you to the "newbie garage" ? ;) > > > > i realize that linux-il try to set a minimal standard of questions that > > are "allowed" to be asked, but if someone has no idea where to even > > begin looking for the answer, point him to "the newbie garage" and ask him to be >more > > clear about himself next time. > > > > Look at the archives of the "newbies garage", and decide for yourself > regarding the quality of replies there. > > Besides, how much do you pay the list subscribers per incident? Do you > have a support contract with us? People answer questions on linux-il > because they find it interesting. People read linux-il because they find > it interesting. If people won't find the list interesting, noone will be > there to answer questions. > > > saying "yo, ass hole, get your sorry ass off my back" will not do the good > > reputation of this list any good. > > > > This list has rules. Don't like them: find enough people who agree withyou > and change them. But at the moemnt I believe that most people are > satisfied with them. > > This list suffered from discussions that turned out to be too theoritical, > and many of the list's subscribers didn't like them. This is why > hackers-il was formed. (current issue there is malloc checking in various > programming languages, if you find that interesting). > > This list suffered from too many newbies posts, which some of the list > subscribers were willing to answer, and some found them a waste of their > time. So gnubies-il was formed. You won't find there Ariel or Marc, but > you will find there Mulix, me, and a number of other people among people > who answered questions in linux-il today. > > I don't think that refering a question to gnubies-il is anything like > showing the door. > > OK. This is enough noise aking from me... > > -- ----------------------------------- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )X (m_m) | | ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| |> < |_)_|_|_| |_|__,_/_/\ http://whatsup.homelinux.com ----------------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
