[Wine] Mailing list <-> forum gateway

[Austin English]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>  > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
>  >  <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
>  >  >  Mailing list now getting clogged up with beginners questions.
>  >  >
>  >  >  For me that's it, I'm leaving, and you'll have to find new maintainers for the
>  >  >  apps I maintained.
>  >
>  >  Hmm.  That's two people who are upset by the
>  >  increase in newbie questions.
>  >
>  >  I'm starting to think that perhaps we do need
>  >  to map the existing forum to a wine-users-newbies list.
>  >  I think that amount of segmentation might in fact
>  >  be useful.
>  >  - Dan
>
>  What am I missing here? I have received maybe 10 messages (just a
>  guess. Maybe more.) in the last couple of days. It doesn't seem (to me
>  anyway) that this is enough to cause anyone heartburn but clearly
>  Renaud is upset by this. I receive something in the range of 250-300
>  messages a day so I hardly see the increase but there have been a few
>  more.
>
>  Am I not receiving all the messages?
>
>  Anyway, I wouldn't want app maintainers quiting over something like
>  this, nor would I prefer to have newbies be without the help of
>  maintainers also. Instead of changing the users list maybe there needs
>  to be some sort of maintainers list for folks like Ranaud?
>
>  I'm perfectly happy with whatever you do but if there are two lists
>  let me know how to get signed up for whatever the new one is.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Mark
>
>

I don't think we should be turning away those seeking help...That's
the whole point of wine-users/the forum. If you didn't want to help,
you shouldn't have signed up for it. Putting a couple warnings/links
to the FAQ/etc should help the situation.