Sometime on Aug 14, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say:
Lets learn to accept those who were like us when we begun this great journey which now is such an integral part of our life quasi.
I would if I could find them. When we began this great journey, people came in for an exchange. Everyone would both give, and take, and pretty much everyone stuck to the list rules.
Today, most of the users believe that this list was formed as a free tech support hotline for them. It's not. If you want tech support, you pay for it. If you want to exchange ideas, and give as much, if not more, than what you take, then come here. It also seems that most people believe that the list rules are bullshit because they aren't in accord with their limited outlook. The rules were formed based on decades of experience and knowledge of mailing lists and usenet. The average linux user on this list has been around for what? three years?
Every now and then I drop in here and try to increase the long term benefits of this list, but everyone else seems interested only in their own short term benefits.
I'm now throwing a question out to everyone.
Do you want someone to admin/moderate/police (pick one) this list, or would you rather do it yourself, or would you like the list to be completely free? Any one of these may work. I don't know. Let the community come together and work it out.
Philip