On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > First off - this is not flame bait or a troll. It's a genuine question. > > Since the forum gateway was introduced, it is my opinion that this list > is getting flooded with newbie questions. Check the "I just installed > Ubuntu" thread for a typical example. > > I wish to silently remove all wine-forum posts and their replies from my > inbox. I plan to filter based on > From: wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx > and the phrase "@forum.winehq.org" appearing anywhere in Message-ID:, > In-Reply-To: or From: > > Not knowing how the gateway is configured, my question is: will this be > enough? > > Now the explanation why. I spend my days at work answering newbie > questions. I've done my requisite 1000s of hours in the past, now it's > someone else's turn. I'm not asking for the gateway to be undone - > those users have a perfect right to ask questions and get answers. If > this is the place, then that is fine. I just don't want to see the > questions anymore, and I don't want to unsubscribe either (the list > itself is great as-is). > > So lets please not turn this into an "Alan is a great big newbie-hating > spawn-of-Satan jerk" thread, OK? > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > > If I read this right, it appears Alan would like a way to filter the extremely "noob" questions from the "legit" ones. In my opinion, its not a bad idea as long as people know how to escalate concerns to his inbox. Quite often, its a "new user" that finds a bug thats worth rising a stir about. -Tres -- - Tres.Finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx
