Subject: Re: Focus guys and Gals
From: Larry Blodgett (blodgett@telocity.com)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 14:24:02 MST
Well Said, I agree. When a linux forum is limited to someone's
individual idea of what it should be we will all loose a measure of
freedom. If this kind of open discussion were such a bad thing I
guess "YDL control" should have come in and persecuted us. I think
YDL realizes that freedom to speak an share ideas is what makes linux
great. I have heard some expertise expressed which is very valuable
and it is nice to have these people on the list. Why would we want
to run them away from the list??????
>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.
>
>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
>
>......
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