Re: [LUG] Computer shops and Linux

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Andrew Rogers wrote:

> A Linux user is a Linux user, whether thick or thin. This is a Linux 
> User Group:)
>
> Should a large group of newbies join then maybe we could have a seperate 
> list and a FAQ.

I've occasionally pondered on the idea of having more than one list on 
days when the list traffic has been particularly high, although how to 
split it has never been terribly obvious.  That said, it's usually that 
combined with the result of having to read a couple of days messages at 
once!  I lament not having the time to be as active on the list as I once 
was, but paying the mortgage is important too. :)

We do of course already operate more than one list, although the others 
(solaris and wireless-exeter) are rarley posted to.

To be honest, (imho obviously) you can't really expect new list members to 
be sufficiently up on netiquette to know how best to approach asking a 
question, but the community usually seems to help them in this direction.  

For completeness, I'll post the url of the ever handy RFC 1855: Netiquette 
Guidelines - http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt.  If you've not 
heard of this before it's worth a quick read, particularly (for the 
purposes of this list) the section on one-to-many communication.

It's full of useful things, like this:

   - Read all of a discussion in progress (we call this a thread)
     before posting replies.  Avoid posting "Me Too" messages,
     where content is limited to agreement with previous posts.
     Content of a follow-up post should exceed quoted content.

Alex.


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