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

[Omer Zak]

Shahar's suggestion addresses the problem, and lets busy Linux-IL
oldtimers ignore the newbies' questions.

However, I am concerned about newbies, who would be confused and post
using linux-il rather gnubies-il, so their messages won't be flagged.
Also, how do we ensure that answers by Linux-IL oldtimers are properly
marked without having them subscribe also to gnubies-il?
                                       --- Omer


On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:21 +0200, Shahar Dag wrote:
> 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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