[Wine] RFD: create new list and forum 'wine-newbies'

[Paul Johnson]

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On Sunday 23 March 2008 08:57:46 pm oiaohm wrote:
> I will be kinda blunt.  Number 1 wine-users was always ment for all wine
> users.  Now wine-newbies could be taken as insulting by some people.

If we must go with the split, instead of creating a new list and forum, just 
unlink the list and the forum.  The newbies will gravitate to the forum and 
the experienced users to the more traditional mailing list environment 
naturally.

Ideally, though, there's no such need for the split, and the forum should just 
be unlinked until the forum rules and the forum interface to the mailing list 
are fixed to comply with standard quoting, threading and traditional user 
expectations (after all, the idea being to bring newbies up to being real 
users, not drag everyone else down to newbie level).  This is doable, however 
the forum to list code has proven too immature for production use and really 
should be pulled from production use until it's fixed.

> Only reason these so called newbies have not been in the mail list is lack
> of skill to find it and join.  Also people like me are not in the mailing
> list because my mail box is already too full.

If there were no forum, the mailing list would be more obvious to find even 
with the present wiki layout.

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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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