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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can we make the <FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>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].</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>This will:</DIV>
<DIV>- be easy to filter gnubies questions</DIV>
<DIV>- give the gnunies a look on more advanced subjects</DIV>
<DIV>- 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</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shahar</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=w1@zak.co.il href="mailto:w1@zak.co.il">Omer Zak</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
href="mailto:linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il">linux-il</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:32
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Linux experts do not want to be
bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>The split between Linux-IL and gnubies-il was made in order to
spare the<BR>Linux experts from having to waste their time deleting newbie
questions.<BR>Before the split was made, newbie questions caused flame wars
and people<BR>to leave Linux-IL altogether.<BR><BR>I strongly oppose
re-unifying them.<BR><BR>However, I propose an alternative solution.<BR>My
proposed solution to the problem is to have the Linux-IL old
timers<BR>volunteer to field gnubies-il questions, according to a
schedule.<BR><BR>I volunteer to field gnubies-il questions sent on Mondays
between<BR>00:00-11:59, with response time of 24 hours. However, I do
not want to<BR>be overwhelmed with gnubies-il messages sent at other
times. Other<BR>volunteers, please choose your convenient times (even if
they overlap<BR>mine) for volunteering.<BR><BR>Can the gnubies-il
administrator/s arrange time/schedule based<BR>subscriptions for volunteers,
so that the volunteers will receive only<BR>messages sent at certain
times? Contact me privately if you need help<BR>adding this feature to
the mailing list management software being
used.<BR><BR>
--- Omer<BR><BR><BR>On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 01:09 +0200, Dotan Cohen
wrote:<BR>> While referring a new Linux user to the Linux-il mailing list,
I found<BR>> this text on the page:<BR>> "No newbie questions (use
gnubies-il instead)."<BR>> <BR>> Can the lists be merged? This list is
low enough traffic that doubling<BR>> it should not be a problem, and the
separation of noobs and gurus<BR>> means that few gurus see the noobs
posts, and they never get the help<BR>> that they need.<BR>-- <BR>May the
holy trinity of $_, @_ and %_ be hallowed.<BR>My own blog is at <A
href="http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/">http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/</A><BR><BR>My
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