On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:08:28PM +0100, Ninad Purohit wrote:
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? r there any exams to be given or any knockout bouts to select the geeks?
I am with you here. I don't think it's possible to classify people as newbies/geeks. In my opinion, question posers are best judges of their questions and it should be upto them to decide which category does their question fit in.
do geeks know all and newbies know nothing? also is this mailing list owned by somebody? some people talk about banning other people, r those the owners? what gives some people the right to look down upon others?
Everyone has a right to form their opinions about others and can voice these thoughts if they deem necessary. Besides, bandwidth isn't cheap. In my own case, I don't _CARE_ for the URL of Mr. X's resume or who his potential employer is. If I wanted to know more about people, I would not look for them on mailing list. I joined this list so that I can have my questions answered and get to know of other interesting questions/debates about the technical/ethical issues surrounding GNU/Linux. And if I see that my bandwidth is getting wasted in downloading emails that are utterly useless to me and the cause of the list, I think I have the full right to be angry about it.
.so what is this, open source closed community? people mail their doubts and of the ten mails they might receive only 2 try to solve them. the remaining tell them to top or bottom post/laugh at their ignorance .
This is a community of users that is very vocal about its beliefs. If you want to equate vocality with narror-mindedness then so be it.
===== ninad purohit ninadonline(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in have a nice day :-)