Which almost is exactly what Joshua said: if dumb subjects likeSure...and the complaints that the Red Hat lists, and/or the Linux community, are all crotchety, or unfriendly, or unhelpful, etc, ad infinitum, would persist.
"X-list digest", but also "no subject" or "question" or
"help".... were trashed by the mailing list software, and *that*
software trained the author sending to him a message saying "message
rejected because of meaningless subject"... the list would be better.
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
here a some rules in this game called open-source, gpl, ...
people who say "that the Red Hat lists, and/or the Linux community, are all crotchety, or unfriendly, or unhelpful, ..."
are mostly not willing to play their role in this game.
you can be sure, they will come back some day and then they will play
-- shrek-m