Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: URGENT: A Plea to the owners of linux.dev.kernel | From | Jes Degn Soerensen <> | Date | 03 Apr 1997 09:47:10 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Barr <barr@math.psu.edu> writes:
Dave> In article <199704021759.MAA00370@jenolan.caipgeneral>, David Dave> S. Miller <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> wrote: >> I think it is just as much of a mistake to tell a new user to go >> blow even if he posts his legitimate questions here.
Dave> Nobody's suggesting this. I agree new users may have legitimate Dave> questions, but it's clear (see below) that they do not have Dave> legitimate questions _here_. All we're asking is that they be Dave> nudged elsewhere.
>> As for the offtopic'ness as of late, the past few days have been >> filled with "clueful postings" and in fact your posting here is the >> first break in that spell. Touche'
Dave> Well, to further confuse the issue with some facts, let's in Dave> fact look at the subjects of the past 3 days, shall we?
Before you start attacking people about these postings, please remember that it is not clear to everybody what is kernel related and what is not. If one person keeps posting junk in here after someone told him/her politely that the postings are off topic, then you can start complaining. Until then it is important to give people the benefit of the doubt and remember that not everybody are expert kernel hackers.
Of course some of the cases you mention are obviously not related to the kernel, but some of the may actually apply to the kernel or a kernel related problem. A RAID related problem for instance may strictly speaking belong to linux-raid, but it may also be of interest in here.
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Dave> Maybe you're reading a different list than I am, but for the Dave> past few days I see one and ONLY one on-topic post. Sure, some Dave> may be "clueful", but for another list entirely.
I have seen more than on on topic post, but well I do not read all the postings and I do not have the time to follow all the lists - heck I am not even sure of all the lists we have.
Jes
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