Sometime Today, Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri . assembled some asciibets to say:
Mumbai, or elsewhere ? How does one define a newbie ? Someone who doesn't know he should RTFM ? Heck, do you realise, he may not know that TFM actually exists ? I did not
Precisely the reason why I've been against the fork until now. But it's moving to a situation where people just expect answers to their mails only. They don't even bother that someone else asked the same question last week.
This defeats the purpose of posting on the list. The way I imagine things happening, is that people ignore the list until they post a query, and then monitor for replies to their mail.
I get personal mails from people with queries about linux. These are queries that could be answered by other newbies on the list, and both learn from that.
I personally don't have the time to read through all mails, and with people using really daft subject lines (I know, I forgot to change mine), it really doesn't help.
Philip