plug-newbies at plug [was: [plug] Hacker Nights (was ** July Workshop Notice **)]

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

I don't actually think thats the case of fobbing newbies off.  I for one 
and I'm sure a few others here have a situation where they aren't 
"experts" in and yet like me enjoy helping other "newbies" in sticky 
situations.  I find that I often contribute to other forum type 
situations as well because I find information for me and I can offer 
information and I think most people are in the same boat.

Regards,

Marc

James Devenish wrote:

>In message <1090836379.2641.11.camel at hosrv01.jtajt.local>
>on Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 06:06:19PM +0800, Jay Warwick wrote:
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>>Sounds to me like you are fobbing us newbies off.
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>Don't worry --- there was also recently a suggestion to administratively
>strangle non-newbie posters.
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>The idea of a plug-newbies list does have its merits (and don't worry --
>non-newbies would be subscribed). However, I personally doubt that
>there's "critical mass" to ensure that such partitioning would function
>naturally under its own steam. If I recall correctly, June of this year
>was basically a "newbie month" on this list. I assume it is just the ebb
>and flow of what people happen to have on their plates. In contrast to
>the current musing, I think in June there was a query about finding an
>alternative for "experts" (as opposed to an alternative for "newbies").
>When the list traffic is high and biased strongly towards "newbie" or
>"expert", partitioning seems to be preferred by some subscribers. But as
>people will point out, this sort of cross-over (for want of a better
>description) has benefits of its own.
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>Note also that there have been already been various prior ideas about
>having multiple lists, newsgroups, website fora or maybe IRC channels.
>So far, I think the only one that has got off the ground is the
>off-topic list.
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