On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 04:22:19PM +0530, Kiran Nadgir wrote:
Yes yes nothing new.....nice to know that luggers are more interested in showing off their intelligence (egos actually) on the way msgs are posted rather than on the msg. Which gets me to ask myself a question....do these great intelligent people really care about GNU/Linux and this mailing list or do they care more about showing off their egos here.
I don't know why everybody likes to use the big bad e-word these days. And I really hope that the impression you convey about the list is borne out of your anger rather than real experience working with the people here. In case you havn't noticed, a lot of problems get solved, many people get introduced to new concepts on this list.
We feel it is important for everyone to follow certain guidelines when posting exactly because we are interested in helping as many people as we can. Now everyone here is a volunteer, with their own work and other loads of email to answer to as well. The guidelines are meant to keep things convenient for _as many_ people as possible.
Help people help you ... writing clear messages makes it easier for others to get to the point and see what they can do about your problem. It's not possible to go through every mail that comes in on all these mailing list, that too only in our free time. We keep cribbing about mailing strategies because we are keen to make maximum use of our time - no one on this list can be expected to take the efforts of going through an ill-written mail and still feel like helping the OP. But we do want to make sure we don't miss an opportunity to help.
Basically to answer your question, there is no doubt whether we care about GNU/Linux - our activities speak for themselves. But YES, we also care about people joining this list, which is the reason we are so persistent in making sure people understand the importance of writing good emails.
Sameer.