On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Vandaman <vandaman2002-rt at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> And yea, working on setting up a sort of list to handle >> much of this semi OT traffic. More news on that around >> Wed next week, dint ask about it now. > > Off course people are going to ask. In my opinion as long > as a topic is marked OT, it is preferable to one not marked > but one in which the OP has not even done basic research > on his problem. > > One distro had a "brainflash" a number of years ago - create > a list for expert users and one for newbies. It didn't take > long for the newbies to realise that there was no one to > help and so flooded the "expert list". This put off the > "experts". > > On some mailing lists, long time users are put off by the > flood of posts by newbies who don't even conform to the list > guidelines. Some pay back by not replying to those in violation > without as much as a hint. > > Would a new list really solve anything or would it close > one door and open another? A CentOS social list would allow the crumedgeon'ing to happen off the main list and for users looking for ISPs or other CentOS community recommended wares/services. I seriously doubt they would be talking newbie/expert lists, as I believe the whole purpose of the lists is to share your knowledge with the less knowledgable. If it were all experts there would be no traffic! -Ross