Re: newbies needing help for graphic login
On Friday 06 January 2006 06:11 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Andy Streich wrote:
> >Agreed. I use a similar strategy. I just want to give the newbie the
> > option to do that -- after they have a solid working setup. Until then,
> > a "debian-newcomer" list (or debian-how-in-the-heck-do-I-get-this-working
> > list) seems like a good idea.
>
> This has been discussed a lot of times (read as 'read the archives').
> There is no real use in setting up a newbie list or debian-newbie list.
> The thing is if it is a newbie list, only newbies will be there and you
> wont get any advice from experts. To almost all the questions you will
> have replies saying "oh! I do have the same problem"... but there wont
> be any solution provided by anyone (as everyone is a newbie). I know I
> wont hang out in a newbie list. But I am not sure about others.
The assumptions you are making include:
1. no experts want to help newbies (contrary to all evidence on this list)
2. it's been discussed in the past so no need to bring it up again
I'm not sure either one of those are valid, Raju.
Andy
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