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

[Shahar Dag]

Hi

Can we make the 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].
This will:
- be easy to filter gnubies questions
- give the gnunies a look on more advanced subjects
- 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

Shahar
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Omer Zak 
  To: linux-il 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:32 AM
  Subject: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)


  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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