On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:15:26AM +0530, Ravindra Jaju wrote: > fork(); fork(); > > 1] Newbies > 2] General > 3] Geeks
Do the numbers justify the fork? Are there too many geeks or too many newbies that are so distant from each other that they want to be on separate lists? I believe the real problem here is inproper initiation into the USENET culture ... the idea about making a first-time poster moderate his own mail is really good ... some newsgroups already do that, I believe. We just need to make people understand the new culture they are moving into when they try GNU/Linux for the first time. I suggest another idea ... something that we do here at KReSIT. When someone sends a mail to the list that doesn't fit the guidelines, _everyone_ should mail the poster directly saying why they think the mail is not good. I use a pre-written template to do this at KReSIT, no need to waste time typing things out again and again. Just make sure send the mail to the poster and not the list! That, coupled with a good verbose rant on the list once in a while should be enough, I think. Philip had promised long ago that he would regularly post Tom Christiansen's mail here, but seems he doesn't want to do that. Sameer. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
