On 2000.06.27 12:08:28, you,
the extraordinary David T-G, opined:
>
> It seems that mutt is cresting one of those points of explosive growth
> where we see a massive influx of clueless newbies -- perhaps, due to
> the easy availability of Linux and even other more mainstream *NIX
> distributions, so new that they don't even know how things work in The
> Right World (tm) -- and have to deal with a bunch of questions that seem
> pretty darned dumb even when we look back to the days when we were young
> and lusers ourselves.
>
> Unfortunately, this translates directly into more traffic on the mailing
> lists that is of fairly low interest to at least the Original Ones ...
[...]
> .... The problem, though, is that some of
> the Original Ones are getting tired of this crap and are unsubscribing or
> strongly contemplating it.
[...]
Has this ever been tried for some Cool Software:
Create two lists:
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And etiquette requires that if you are fairly newbile
you send your question to CoolSoftwareNewbies and wait
a reasonable time before construing the absence of
answer as an indication that you should send it to
CoolSoftwareUsers?
Naive, I suppose......
Cheers, N.
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