Re: debian-user split
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
I thought I should add my comments to this subject. I can appreciate that
a newbie list is not disirable since it would be newbies leading newbies,
but at the moment there is so much activity that I don't have time to read
the 100 odd articles that come to this list per day. If I'm away for a
few days then it's just way too much. This means that I probably would't
get down to answering many newbie questions since I'm being very heavy
handed on the delete key after only reading the subject. I'm not going to
offer any opinion either way, but I think I'm going to have to unsubscribe
and try the digest list, since I just don't have time. Now to add my
opinion: after a year and a half of use I finally got round to reading
most of the instructions for trn. Now I've got the hang of kill files,
I'd prefer to see more people use the news groups instead. Since I'm new
to these lists, is there a big feeling for mail groups instead of news
group?
Anyway I'll shut up now.
Jon.
> *- On 30 Jun, richard wrote about "debian-user split"
>
> [DOUBLE SPACE TEXT CLEANED TO SINGLE SPACE]
> > I had this thought the other day when I was looking over some archived
> > deban-user stuff. Two thoughts actually. I know that there are an awful
> > lot of questions that crop up time and time again. These aren't directly
> > related to the Debian-FAQ but crop up enough that maybe there should be
> > something like a debian-user-FAQ, kinda like the Linux-FAQ but tailored
> > more towards Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> Check out all the links under the User Documentation
> page on Debian's site, http://www.debian.org/doc/.
>
> >
> > Secondly a while someone commented about the number of users new to
> > Linux and using debian as their first version (I think it was posted on
> > debian-devel in march sometime.) Anyway, the thought was was that maybe
> > there should be a new debian list, something like debian-newbie. That
> > way people would hopefully think about joining the newbiew list, moving
> > to the user list once they have a better understanding of debian GNU/Linux.
> > For instance, I was thinking that the sort of questions on debian-newbie
> > would be along the lines of; how do I compile a kernel? Why doesn't X work?
> > Does debian support my soundcard? HELP!
> >
> > And debian-user could be used for questions like; my ip-masquerading appears
> > to be broken, I've tried ..., I've upgraded X to patato and now my systems
> > broken..., I'm looking for ...
> >
> > You get the idea. If I'm being completely stupid here then please say so
> > nicely. I'm just throwing a thought I had to the group. Comments would
> > be most welcome.
>
> This topic has been disucussed MANY times in the past. Dig through the
> archives. Basically you don't want a newbie only list because then it
> would be newbies helping newbies, yikes! For there to be any useful
> advice on the newbie list then more advanced users would have to read
> that list as well, then you are back to having a more general list
> again. It is better for a newbie to lurk on a more general list and
> learn from the other advice that is going on, even if it doesn't
> directly relate to a current problem that you may have. If you think
> you have a newbie question, chances are that it may have already been
> answered before, check the archives.
>
> --
> Brian
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Jonathan Sharp http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~jonathan/home.html
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick. UK.
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