Shahar's suggestion addresses the problem, and lets busy Linux-IL
oldtimers ignore the newbies' questions.
However, I am concerned about newbies, who would be confused and post
using linux-il rather gnubies-il, so their messages won't be flagged.
Also, how do we ensure that answers by Linux-IL oldtimers are properly
marked without having them subscribe also to gnubies-il?
--- Omer
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:21 +0200, Shahar Dag wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can we make the gnubies-il actually an alias (or what ever) to
> linux-il, and configured things that every message sent to gnubies-il
> will have in the subject [GNUBIES].
> This will:
> - be easy to filter gnubies questions
> - give the gnunies a look on more advanced subjects
> - give an easy was for advanced users to select which questions to
> answer without having to subscribe to gnubies-il. this may help make
> Linux more popular among new users
>
> Shahar
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Omer Zak
> To: linux-il
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:32 AM
> Subject: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie
> questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)
>
>
> The split between Linux-IL and gnubies-il was made in order to
> spare the
> Linux experts from having to waste their time deleting newbie
> questions.
> Before the split was made, newbie questions caused flame wars
> and people
> to leave Linux-IL altogether.
>
> I strongly oppose re-unifying them.
>
> However, I propose an alternative solution.
> My proposed solution to the problem is to have the Linux-IL
> old timers
> volunteer to field gnubies-il questions, according to a
> schedule.
>
> I volunteer to field gnubies-il questions sent on Mondays
> between
> 00:00-11:59, with response time of 24 hours. However, I do
> not want to
> be overwhelmed with gnubies-il messages sent at other times.
> Other
> volunteers, please choose your convenient times (even if they
> overlap
> mine) for volunteering.
>
> Can the gnubies-il administrator/s arrange time/schedule based
> subscriptions for volunteers, so that the volunteers will
> receive only
> messages sent at certain times? Contact me privately if you
> need help
> adding this feature to the mailing list management software
> being used.
>
> --- Omer
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 01:09 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > While referring a new Linux user to the Linux-il mailing
> list, I found
> > this text on the page:
> > "No newbie questions (use gnubies-il instead)."
> >
> > Can the lists be merged? This list is low enough traffic
> that doubling
> > it should not be a problem, and the separation of noobs and
> gurus
> > means that few gurus see the noobs posts, and they never get
> the help
> > that they need.
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