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Re: Newbie Help (was: Re: (no subject))
How about people who ask newbie questions would add newbie to the subject,
and those experts too busy to bother to read, answer or help newbies who
join the Linux community will set a mail filter on the subject to filter out
Newbies. Those busy experts would surely know how to set such a mail filter
and it seems to me almost all newbies qualified their questions by adding
newbie to the subject.
Personally, I won't filter out newbie questions. Seeing the proliferation of
the windoze non-OSes, I think the more people using Linux would increase its
viability as a an alternative, and this group can do its share by helping
people, who find the learning curve of Linux too steep, pass that hump.
Yuval.
Erez Doron wrote:
> Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> > well, for all ye vets with daydreams about the better days we once had,
> > here are some of the bits I dug up in 5 minutes from my personal
> > collection (not the best of...)
> >
>
> Hi all.after reading these examples, i wanted to say that
> sometimes people on the list are so `expert` in linux
> that they think that everybody is born with the knoledge
> of how to run it.
>
> some things that may seem trivial to a guru, may not
> be even solvable to a newbe
>
> I do not say that everybody should post a question
> on the list before reading the howtos or searching
> the web ( I admit, I was a bad boy, I've done this a few
> times myself), but the other ones should not leave
> their flamers aimed, and flame everybody on sight.
>
> I myself refer to that that I was flamed for not knowing
> how to run a java applet from command line,
> ( yes, I know It was after a sequnce of qustions
> I shouldn't have put on the list ), but I'v seen others
> flamed too soon two.
>
> well, that was just a thought
> regards
> Erez.