On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:47:48PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Robert Mognet wrote: > > > > Let's don't make the operating system 'dumber'. Let's have users > > > > who are willing to learn.
I don't think dumber == friendlier. Since very few machines are being sold with Debian installed (or so I gather), it is safe to assume that anyone on debian-user has already shown a willingness to learn. Should a mailing list's infrastructure try to teach command line syntax and semantics? If the list's infrastructure is going to teach anything it should be how to manage mailing lists. > > > The problem is, if you're unsubscribing from this list, you may well have > > > given up. You don't want to learn. It seems silly to then shove learning > > > down your throat to let you get off a list that no longer interests you. Exactly. > Well, at least you can say that once you *have* understood how to > subscribe/unsubscribe to Debian, it's extremely easy to do, which is > more than can be said for some of the lists I've tried to use. All the info is there, but I wonder how many people delete the intro message after reading it... Every ML I've subscribed to sent me either a list of admin commands or an email address to use in case of problems; perhaps the first item in this list's intro message should be a suggestion to create a "list-info" folder and save all confirmation messages from mailing lists in it. later, Bruce