Hi Damian, A reasonable comment: BUT if the people do not speak up - out of fear of reprisal - how is change ever going to happen? The Newbie list *IS* the only place to have reasonable discourse on the product. It is NOT supposed to be a Geekfest.
Maybe a good solution would be to have an internal code on Replies: GEEK USER COMMUNITY ( for community discussion) Then fanatics could avoid any challenge to their tiny world, Geeks could talk unintelligbly away from the rest of us real Newbies :-) , Users could get simple help on getting it to go usably and those good souls who like to help, as distinct from those here to display their arrogance/cleverness/oneupmanship, could dip into the anguish of the User area and help real beginners who have never cooked anything except lunch. It could work you know, with a bit of support. The Geeks have no idea how off-putting and terrifying the complex matters typical on this list are! Users cannot even understand the questions, much less the answers and for many it is the very first exposure outside the MS/Apple GUI world. Cheers, John ----- Original Message ----- From: Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 4:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Support? El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 10:02, john rigby escribió: > Hello Sal, > > WOOPS!! > NOW you'll get it! > Rule #1 on this list has become : > THOUGH SHALT NOT SPAKE A SINGLE WORLD OF CRITICISM AGAINST THE ONE TRUE > THING --note: what i'm going to say here may apply to you or not, i'm just going to say what i think about some very recent 'angry' posts made by several ppl. well.. this is a newbie list, it's supposed to be a place where you ask questions, get answers, read questions, and give answers. criticism is out of order here, if you don't like something about Limux-Mandrake, we do not need to hear it, and it's probably not really up to us to change it. if you want to tell someone how bad you feel about this distro, it's not the users you have to bitch at. you could send a letter to mandrakesoft or whatever. you won't get flamed by them.
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