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Re: Departing from linux-il list
Rani Pinchuk <pinchuk@kinetica.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today I decided to leave this mailing list. This is due to
> the attitude of some members of the list. In this letter I'll try to
> explain my move, and if some of you feel like me - please write to my
> email address. Who knows - may be there are enough of us to establish a
> mailing list...
> In the last days more then 10 letters were around the subject of the
> behavior of Marc A. Volovic. Also I found out that there are members who
> approve of this behaviour. I had enough of it.
We've had at least two flame wars of this kind in the list, all sympthoms the
same - with some members leaving, some suggesting splitting of the list etc.
There is even a sociological study :) - see
http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/96/05/msg00158.html
(BTW, should it be included in the FAQ?) The bottom line, however, is that list
remains unsplitted and some (probably, majority) of unsubscribed members
subscribed again after a while.
> I am registered to other lists deal with Linux items. Never I saw such a
> behavior there. A new user of linux wrote a trivial question? - so he gets
> pointers to the documentations, and sometimes even the answer. What's
> wrong with that? (BTW - those are not moderated lists!).
There are lists and lists.
I'm subscribed to a few linux mailing lists, too. Those lists have very high
signal/noise ratio; otherwise, experienced and busy members would unsubscribe -
and what is good in a list having only newbies on it?
An excellent example that comes to my mind: a few months ago, some member of
Linux-il sent a primitive question to the LINUX-SERVER list. Hmmm... not every
list has a person 100% equivalent to Marc... :)) but someone immediately replied
to the list with "Please don't flame him & send replies to the list! I'm helping
him now". The softness of the reaction could be explained only by the rarity of
such posts there.
> What are the objectives of linux-il?
Well, Ariel's already answered this precisely.
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> In order that a mailing list which is not moderated will live, the people
> in that list must be very tolerant and modest.
Agree. But is sending a pile of ignorant mails a sign of modesty?
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Regards,
Evgeny
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