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.
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ninad purohit
ninadonline(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in
have a nice day :-)
--
Bhargav Bhatt,
Columbia University.