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

DARKGuy . dark.guy.2008 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 15:25:21 CDT 2008


And then we have people who think their question is too advanced for
wine-beginners and posts in wine-users. Then there are others who will
think wine-beginners is too n00b and will post their n00b questions in
wine-users, then we'll get a lot of emails of people who go like "Hey
dude, this is not the place to post, please make your thread -here- or
-there-".

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Ove Kaaven <ovek at arcticnet.no> wrote:
> Dan Kegel skrev:
>
> > It has been suggested that the wine-users list
>  > is now too busy, and needs to be split into two:
>  > one for experienced users, and one for beginners.
>  > However, this might leave the beginners adrift
>  > without any experienced people to help them.
>
>  Well, I don't see why that would be the case. How much experience could
>  you possibly need to tell users that they need to doubleclick .exe files
>  to run them, which seems to be a majority of the issues around here?
>  That's the kind of thing even beginners might be able to help each other
>  with...
>
>  And once the users have learned how to doubleclick and stuff, they can
>  then leave wine-newbies and seek further enlightenment from the wise
>  guys at wine-users. Perhaps that might work...?
>
>
>
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