No noobs?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:09:57AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>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.

IMHO they should stay that way. I don't want to add more emails I'm going
to ignore to my life. If the person writing the question writes in Hebrew
it does not belong here, and if they can write it in English there are
lots of better places for them to ask.

The worst case I can see is someone asking, quite seriously, "which distro
should I use"?, which will start another distro war and turn them off from
the list in specific and Linux in general.

Besides, do you want to subject noobs to our discussions. Some of them
do get out of hand. :-)

If you want to answer linux noob questions, I suggest you subscribe to
that list and help out. I don't, I prefer to spend my online time helping new
and prospective olim, so I don't.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM