On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:08:16AM -0500, Dot Dot wrote:
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- Please understand that we are new to Linux. We want help from LInux gurus like you to help us. And there are many of us, feeling reluctant to ask questions, because we dont know if they will sound silly.
Most of the people on this list would be glad to help if they can. But remember it can't be all one sided. If there is someone willing to help you, then you must be willing to put in some effort yourself. This effort includes digging the man pages, using google, etc.
- Please dont intimidate us with strict rules for sending a mail to LUG mailing list. Let us feel free to ask questions, even if it looks like trivial to geeks. We understand that your time is valuable. But we would like to request you to take some time out to sort out our issues. I understand it when you get irritated seeing a mail seeking job. But let us be happy that there are people out there looking for a job in Linux. We are growing. Let us not think that they are not upto our standards. They didnt get a chance to understand Linux earlier.
Regarding jobs: While it is heartening to see people seeking jobs in Linux, I don't think this is an appropriate place for such postings. There are literally millions of places on the internet where this information can be found. Otherwise, this list will just become like another variant of jobs.com.
- We will be sad if you start a new mailing list for linux gurus. We will feel left alone. I thought we want to make people aware of Linux and encourage them to use it. Not to create groups of geeks and newbies. Please dont discriminate. Try to help us solve our trivial issues.
Even in the categories, nobody will discriminate against people. It might very well be the case that a guru sometimes has a question which he feels that a newcomer to linux might know something about (like some feature of the latest Redhat distro). This is where the categories, I suspect, will come into play. It's for sorting questions, not people.
- I personally will agree to categories. Let us give it a try. There is no need to enforce it strictly.
The views expressed here doesn't implicate that any of the esteemed lugger thought low about the newbies.
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