hmm, I think it's a bit more devious. I had the notion earlier that someone was manually creating gmail accounts to the spam the list. Motives? Well, that is what I thought, why? I'd like to believe all the post are righteous. Then again, as humans we are quite incredulous. --mike --- Jim Perrin <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/18/05, Greg Knaddison > <greg.knaddison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Anyone else noticing a large number of non-yum/ug > items on here recently? > > > Yes, but to be fair, it doesn't seem to be just this > list. > > > Any ideas what is going on? > > Best guess (yanked in un-edited form from my ass) > would be that we're > seeing a a wave of windows users coming into linux > via fedora ( a > large number of questions seem to at least include > the word 'fedora' > in them somewhere ) and windows users aren't overly > used to the > mailing list form of communication, or locating the > proper one for > their given dilemma. I recommend politely pointing > them in the right > direction for assistance. I'd hate to hammer home > the idea that we're > all elitist snobs unwilling to help. Linux forces > need the userbase, > so we're going to have to teach the windows people > how to think > properly in certain contexts. > > /soapbox zealotry > -- > Jim Perrin > System Architect - UIT > Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >
