From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24529 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2002 19:41:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24505 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2002 19:41:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bellana) (213.58.34.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Jul 2002 19:41:12 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.231] (port=1690 helo=toos) by bellana with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id GZNZEO-000150-00 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:59:12 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (port=1615 helo=toos) by toos with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id GZNZIV-0000YS-00 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:01:44 +0000 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:18:00 -0000 From: Raphael cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FYI: HTML targets in "Smart Questions" In-Reply-To: <001901c23101$c8457a40$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01766.txt.bz2 On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > > Raphael wrote: > > > >> ... split the list in a 'dummies' and a 'BOFH' version .... > >> The split is IMHO long overdue anyway, half of what I read > >> is giberish to me anyway (yup put me in with the 'dummies') > >> and resigning the list because of this has come to mind > >> several times. > > > > I couldn't agree more. That way we can read and learn from the posts > > from the 'smart/experienced' folks on *this* list, and ask questions > > on the 'dummies/newbies' list without being harangued by various > > RTFM's, STFW's, pointers to etiquette screeds, etc. > > Although this may sound like a good idea at first though, I really don't > see how it can work It's quite easy actually, just as I take the time to instruct newbees that there linelength is not according to current RFC=B4s other people might point out cygwin newbees to FAQ's quoting the answer from a FAQ pointed to. This encouridges people to read the faq instead of feeling harrashed. And yes this happens on a lot of newbee lists becouse people do not expect anything from them and exept the same question ask 100 times before they start publishing a sort of weekly or montly FAQ, that is not appreciated by the god who will then vanish to a god list. Easy. > - the only questions which really generate RTFMs and > haranguing are the truly dumb ones (that don't actually include enough > information to give anyone a hope of answering correctly) I always learned that the only dumb question is one that hasn't been asked. > , and the ones > which have already been asked and answered in the past fortnight or so. Thank you for your opinion, I hope you don't feel offended if it stay's your and will not become mine. > I agree that the traffic on this list can be absurdly high, but I think > that is an unavoidable artefact of the large Cygwin user base. Not if these kind of meta discussions a starting to become frequent. Noise generates noise as this example quit clearly shows. > > Max. > Sorry for my English I probably missed a FAQ. Raphael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/