On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:40 +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > Alan Burlison wrote: > > It appears to me that opensolaris-discuss is becoming more and more > > dominated with Solaris installation questions, and the OpenSolaris > > content is becoming lost in the noise. Whilst it is very nice that > > people are being so helpful, it would seem to me that we should either > > be directing people elsewhere (e.g. BigAdmin) or set up a new list > > (opensolaris-newbies?) for installation and getting-started questions. > > > > What do people think? > > > > > Well I waged what for a while appeared to be a one man campaign > redirecting Solaris 10 questions to more appropriate forums. > Unfortunately, the help list suffers the same problem. > > Maybe I'll start again, mail lists can very easily get swamped with off > topic posts if people realise they get answers there. > > I'd suggest a polite redirection of off topic posts, or simply ignore them.
off topic messages can however be very interesting, and in a strange way eventually loop back to the original topic at hand. Heck, I've been in networking classes where we did a complete loop from TCP/IP to IP addresses to networking on a larger scale, Telstra's networking, someones former experience working for them and going right out to left field covering the the best kind of pizza to each when drinking a particular beer - but ultimately it all came back eventually to the question at hand - be it after 45 minutes of discussing completely off topic :) Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
