[Wine] Mailing list <-> forum gateway

[A. Tres Finocchiaro]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  First off - this is not flame bait or a troll. It's a genuine question.
>
>  Since the forum gateway was introduced, it is my opinion that this list
>  is getting flooded with newbie questions. Check the "I just installed
>  Ubuntu" thread for a typical example.
>
>  I wish to silently remove all wine-forum posts and their replies from my
>  inbox. I plan to filter based on
>  From: wineforum-user at winehq.org
>  and the phrase "@forum.winehq.org" appearing anywhere in Message-ID:,
>  In-Reply-To: or From:
>
>  Not knowing how the gateway is configured, my question is: will this be
>  enough?
>
>  Now the explanation why. I spend my days at work answering newbie
>  questions. I've done my requisite 1000s of hours in the past, now it's
>  someone else's turn. I'm not asking for the gateway to be undone -
>  those users have a perfect right to ask questions and get answers. If
>  this is the place, then that is fine. I just don't want to see the
>  questions anymore, and I don't want to unsubscribe either (the list
>  itself is great as-is).
>
>  So lets please not turn this into an "Alan is a great big newbie-hating
>  spawn-of-Satan jerk" thread, OK?
>
>
>  --
>  Alan McKinnon
>  alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>
>

If I read this right, it appears Alan would like a way to filter the
extremely "noob" questions from the "legit" ones.

In my opinion, its not a bad idea as long as people know how to
escalate concerns to his inbox.  Quite often, its a "new user" that
finds a bug thats worth rising a stir about.

-Tres

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- Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com