Ninad Purohit writes:
can any one classify please who's a newbie or who's a geek for that matter? I always thought these terms were relative. How exactly do u qualify to be a geek?
We, the g/luggers are planning to have a cross-country code race for would-be geeks. The race map will be posted to this list soon. Recommended exercises to prepare for "THE RACE" is looking around for answers in man/info/HOWTOS pages. If that doesn't help - googlize the web and using command --help. You should go through these exercises ten times every month. Deliberation are on within the GLUG to include these as eligibility criteria.
Other exercises which might help your preparation are learning to fix your line length, not using top posting, asking questions the smart way (after giving enough info about your efforts) and searching the archives of the list (to see if your answers are have already been answered).
Also chanting "I SHALL NOT VIOLATE THE MAILING LIST GUIDELINES" everyday may strengthen your resolve to win the race.
r there any exams to be given or any knockout bouts to select the geeks?
Good idea !!! We shall discuss about it in the next GLUG meeting. I hate some people on this list. I am looking forward to give them some black eyes and broken bones ;-)
do geeks know all and newbies know nothing?
Are you talking about the ML guidelines here? I might agree then on that classification :).
also is this mailing list owned by somebody?
Yeah. It is owned by all of us - the contributers and the subscribers. We should use it responsibly.
some people talk about banning other people, r those the owners?
Repeated offenders should be banned. After all of us are HUMANS and not Bots. We don't have infinite patience.
what gives some people the right to look down upon others?.so what is this, open source closed community?
You have the wrong impression, my friend. It was just irate people venting their frustration after repeated misuse of this mailing list. This is the free software open community :). Open source people are also welcome and so are others.
and if at all this list gets split i suggest a fifth category reserved for egotisms and plummage puffing
While splitting the list will do little good, education of newbies will definitely help.
I feel two suggestions posted during this discussion can be implemented by using a path of _least_resistance_
Parag Shah's suggestion to have classifying headers in the subject line (some people don't even have subject line). However what would be suitable headers can be discussed in the LUG meet.
Nikhil Karkera's suggestion to have an online test of the mailing list guidelines before members subscribe. (It seems funny, but at this point it seems the only logical way to make people read and "UNDERSTAND" the guidelines.)
:D ciao
Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-JUHU