Subject: Re: Focus guys and Gals
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 13:35:27 MST
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, dave wrote:
> I agree I had a couple of basic questions and I want to ask more but out of
> the 230+ emails posted while I was away 15% were technical responses. 20%
> life style choices. 10% on where to find things. 55% were peanut gallery.
> What is worse is that some of the people in the peanut gallery are the most
> technically adept on the list and should know better. Please, in the
> interest of advancing LINUX and the the way the world computes can we
> maintain a level of professionalism. Use AOL if you want to rant
>
Point taken. But sometimes it's just fun to talk about linux-related
things. Many of the technical questions that breeze across this list are
not YDL specfic questions, but are rather general linux computing
questions that would be better answered on comp.os.linux.*, a local LUG,
or a mailing list forum for the specific app. Shoudl these questions be
ousted to other forums as well? Frankly, answering "How do I set up X?"
gets boring and the OT threads are a refreshing break, espically on a
Friday this close to beer-thirty ;)
I think to advance linux we all need to be technically knowledgeable and
that includes philosophy about licenses and why software X is better than
soaftware Y, not just how to write backup scripts with tar or compile
OpenOffice. This is a community as well as a techinical list and
communities tend to waggle a bit in terms of staying on topic.
-n
ps.. next time, please remember to snip off the previous replies, esp.
if they aren't related to the subject. It's the professional thing to do
:-P
-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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