What gives has the list server gone belly up?

[Alma J Wetzker]

David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:35:18 +0000
> Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Leon Goldstein wrote:
>>>
>>>>Collins wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Yeah, back in the Caldera list days, newbies needed an asbestos
>>>>
>>>>suit > to fight the flames!  The list has mellowed out.  I'll throw
>>>>out a few > tidbits later.
>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Either my memory is bad, or my brains have turned into asbestos, but
>>>>I never got the impression this list was ever neophyte-incendiary. 
>>>>(Now here is a topic to start a flame war with!)
>>>>
>>>
>>>It did have some issues.  If you wanted to learn linux to be a linux
>>>guru and sysadmin, the list was quite helpful.  If you just wanted to
>>>use linux to get some other job done, well, some folks got a little
>>>short tempered with their answers.
> 
> 
> 
> You mean like: RTFM!!

That could be one of them type answers.  It really isn't as helpful as it 
looks.  The "Flamin' Manual" comes in many sections and more files.  Often you 
need the name of a utility to do what you need.  Pointing folks to WHICH 
manual is all the help they need.  Telling them to "bite the wall" may feel 
good, in a mean spirited sort of way, but it helps no one.

     -- Alma