[Wine] Wine

[Kevin Horton]

On 20 Mar 2008, at 13:38, James Hawkins wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Alan McKinnon  
> <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Mailing lists - we know 'em and love 'em. Nuff said.
>>
>>  The bit I don't get is interfacing the two. It's like interfacing a
>>  brothel with a sex-education class - superficially similar but  
>> when you
>>  look closer you see they actually have nothing in common...
>
> If they weren't linked, all of us ML users would never get over to the
> forum to help exactly the type of people that need our help.

I wonder what percentage of the ML users have responded to a help  
request that originated from the forum?  It seems there are only a  
small percentage of current ML users who have both the knowledge and  
the patience to deal with typical newbie questions posted on the  
forum.  Of that small number, some would be willing to register and  
use the forum, and some would only help newbies if they can do so via  
an email list.  For this small percentage of ML users who would help  
newbies, but only if via a ML, we must subject all ML users to the  
crud that comes from the forum, plus the never ending back and forth  
on the pros and cons of linking the forum and ML.

Why not create a second ML - wine-newbies, and link that list to the  
forum.  Unlink this list from the forum.  Those ML users who have the  
patience to help newbies, but prefer doing so via a ML can subscribe  
to wine-newbies.  Those of us who prefer things the way they were can  
return to peace and quiet on this ML.

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Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada