Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism

1997-10-24 Thread David E. Scott
Chris, thanks for the clarification. Dave Christopher C Chimelis wrote: > *meant* to say was that if there are any questions regarding Debian on > Alphas, please post the questions to the debian-alpha list. > > Thanks for pointing it out to me again.. :) -- --David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism

1997-10-24 Thread Bruce Perens
On second thought, perhaps I should be asking you to write the installation instructions and the FAQ. Since you describe yourself as a user, you must have figured it out :-) Thanks Bruce > > I dont understand why the Debian Alpha maintainers want to act as if > > Alpha users dont

Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism

1997-10-24 Thread Bruce Perens
> I dont understand why the Debian Alpha maintainers want to act as if > Alpha users dont exist. We are constantly ignored when asking for > installation instructions and constantly ignored when making FAQ > suggestions. > > They seem to want to talk over our head. This is unreleased development

Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism

1997-10-24 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On 22 Oct 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote: > I dont understand why the Debian Alpha maintainers want to act as if > Alpha users dont exist. We are constantly ignored when asking for > installation instructions and constantly ignored when making FAQ > suggestions. > They seem to want to talk over our

Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism

1997-10-24 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, David E. Scott wrote: > I'm a new subscriber to debian-user list and I found this recent > snippet there attributed to you. If you are not monitoring debian-user > list, then to what list are you referring when you say: "*THIS* list" > below? (There is nothing in the hea

[ANSWER] Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism

1997-10-24 Thread Marc A. Volovic
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Christopher C Chimelis wrote: > Also, I haven't seen a FAQ on this to begin with, not to mention heard of > any FAQ suggestions. Maybe it's just me, but where exactly are these > people asking for help? Maybe one of us should be watching debian-user > since I suspect it's co