[Wine] Re: Mailing list <-> forum gateway

vitamin wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sun Mar 2 14:47:55 CST 2008


Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> On Sunday 02 March 2008, my mailbox was graced by a missive
> from "vitamin" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> who wrote:
> 
> 
> > Then you should think about un-subscribing from the wine-users. That is the
> > list for users to seek help. If you saying you can only help these users
> > and not other users just because they know less about wine - you should
> > rethink why you subscribed to the list in the first place.
> > 
> > This is a pointless conversation. Splitting mailing list to "noobs" and
> > "experts" will never work, as noobs will always think they are experts, and
> > wise-versa.
> > 
> 
> The list was, before the forum link, a place where serious wine-users could 
> discuss problems.
> 
> With the forum link we have been flooded with beginners queries that barely 
> merit a RTFM / RTFFAQ and the nois/signal ratio has become very strong.
> 
> Which leads me to reconsider my membership of this list, as it is now mainly a 
> waste of time for advanced users; in which case I would also feel compelled 
> to remove myself from the various apps I am maintainer of.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ron.
> -- 
> Blame San Andreas:
> it's all his fault.
> 
> -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --



Then why don't you use forum instead and ask to make a separate section for advanced users? It's easy on forum to move topics around. It's impossible to do so on the list.

The whole point of forum was to attract more new users to Wine. And to not further divide users into groups.







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