No, noobs (which I understand to mean newbies) should be put in the metaphorical kindergarten and allowed to grow there. On the other hand, oldtimers should be encouraged to volunteer in the kindergarten - but not required to subject themselves to the distractions of the kindergarten. --- Omer
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:47 +0200, Jacob Broido wrote: > noobs should die. > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> > 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. -- MS-Windows is the Pal-Kal of the PC world. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il