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Re: Newbie help, and public relations.



Ira Abramov wrote:

> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Yuval El-Hanany wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> how about a simpler solution: a new mailing list? I created "general Q&A"
> about a year ago, and no one seems to be interested. I offered a newbie
> list before but it wasn't really accepted.

I don't think it would work. A mailing list need a critical message volume to
become effective. When I search for mailing list for which to send my questions,
I always check whether it is "popular". That's why everyone are sending their
questions to linux-il - because of its high volume. Most of the time there's low
newbies traffic, so it seems best if that low volume would be piggy backed on to
linux-il and those not interested can always ignore.

> ...
>
> now I'm not reading Ha'aretz from here, but do Avi Blizovski and Gugi
> Doodleman write anything about Mozilla's progress? about the Corel
> announcements? do they go into details and explain what linux is? is their
> report about MS's latest shenanigans include explanations about the OS
> alternatives out there? did they mention the fact that the "mimshal zamin"
> will only support MS hebrew? Do they ever write about the statistics
> reports of netcraft, about OpenSource, about the fact 25% of American
> ISPs run on Linux, second only to Sun?

Avi Blizovski is an ignoramus in the computer business. He mainly copies foreign
magazines and PR messages he gets. He also writes for Galileo (BTW a very good
Israeli magazine for those of you interested in science), where I would have
expected him to do a bit more research. One of his latest article titles there
was: Intel releases the fastest CPU in the world... (referring if I remember
correctly to the Pentium 300MHz). The content was about the same bullshit...
Perhaps, if we can feed his news tapline, we might get him to publish that Linux
is the biggest OS with the largest user base in the world ;-)

                     Yuval