Re: REALLY OT: News Flash
Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:
>> > Who gives a shit about politics, and what the hell has it it got to do
>> > with the debian mailing list???
>> It's the Debian *USER* list, not the *DEBIAN* User list. As has been
>> discussed several times every time a long thread comes up the list is for
>> the
>> discussion of topics of interest to users of Debian. Most times this
>> means
>> discussing Debian itself. Sometimes, it doesn't.
>
> Are you suggesting that instead of creating a debian "off topic"
> mailing list, we should create a debian-help list instead, specifically
> mandated on the topic of getting and giving help with debian?
How does this overcome the "newbies-only" chicken/egg problem that web
forums and other failed newbie-oriented discussions currently generate?
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