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