Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was: Re: No noobs?)

[Omer Zak]

The split between Linux-IL and gnubies-il was made in order to spare the
Linux experts from having to waste their time deleting newbie questions.
Before the split was made, newbie questions caused flame wars and people
to leave Linux-IL altogether.

I strongly oppose re-unifying them.

However, I propose an alternative solution.
My proposed solution to the problem is to have the Linux-IL old timers
volunteer to field gnubies-il questions, according to a schedule.

I volunteer to field gnubies-il questions sent on Mondays between
00:00-11:59, with response time of 24 hours.  However, I do not want to
be overwhelmed with gnubies-il messages sent at other times.  Other
volunteers, please choose your convenient times (even if they overlap
mine) for volunteering.

Can the gnubies-il administrator/s arrange time/schedule based
subscriptions for volunteers, so that the volunteers will receive only
messages sent at certain times?  Contact me privately if you need help
adding this feature to the mailing list management software being used.

                                      --- Omer


On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 01:09 +0200, Dotan Cohen 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.
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