DEATH OF DEBIAN PREDICTED - NEWS AT 11!!! Well, not quite... Karsten commented to me off list that starting such a thread was contributing to the excess. He's right, but I think it's something interesting to think about. Quoth Ignasi Tura, > Let's see if we continue this way or we just split (I suggest > debian-novice if there's the case). Splits have been proposed countless times in the past, and it's always been concluded that it wouldn't work. If we started a debian-novice, who would hang around to answer questions? Certainly being on d-u is an educational experience. I attribute most of my linux knowledge to things that I have picked up in passing here. Certainly browsing d-u regularly will make you a better linux user and administrator than reading any book will. However, people don't tend to be too receptive when they ask what's the best way to learn about linux and you tell them to follow a high-volume mailing list for a year or two! I wonder, however, how long the ballance can be maintained. I'm finding myself that I'm using CTL-D a lot (in mutt, that's delete-thread), so there is probably questions that I would have responded to in the past that I now no-longer read. There have been over 220 posts in the last 24-hours. Who has the time to read them all any more? As such, is this list destined to become less useful? Interestingly, this increase has come at the same time as web sites like debianplanet and debianhelp. Maybe if more people knew about these resources (and more of us knowledgable folks contributes to them), the reliance, and traffic, on this list would decrease. Oh well, I'm sure we'll work it out. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
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