[Ilugc] How to make ILUGC list user friendly?
- From: yogeshg1987@xxxxxxxxx (Yogesh Girikumar)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:25:36 +0530
2011/7/12 Balajee - Gmail <balajeeseshadri at gmail.com>
When I drive my car on the road I should follow the rules, otherwise we
know what will happen. The same way when a
member like to participate in the list let him see the previous mails,
study
list rules and understand how to ask questions.
Most new comers have zero idea about seeking support from the Internet. We
need to be polite to them. We should educate them. If you think we have no
business educating them then we should stay silent instead of rebuking them
the very first time. Repeated mistakes can be taken seriously. We should
first welcome them and then maybe point them to list rules.
Recently someone asking if he can use Ubuntu alongside Windows Server was
rebuked for no reason. For all we know, he might have had some good reason
for that. I was working part time at an Internet cafe and I have tried to
switch the whole cafe to Ubuntu. The proprietor told be "Do whatever you
want, just don't touch the server"! He had his own concerns. Everyone has to
start somewhere. I would certainly expect the senior Linux experts /
Veterans to be a bit more kind and forgiving.
And this thread is not about decline in the number of posts. It's about new
comers to the list and how they (and their mistakes) are treated.
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