to list as well, whoops! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx> Date: 2 Mar 2008 17:31 Subject: Re: Mailing list <-> forum gateway To: "A. Tres Finocchiaro" <tres.finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx> On 02/03/2008, A. Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Although we've had a lot more list traffic with the forum gateway in place, to me it looks like much the same level of stuff - some highly technically adept users, some users who seem to be recent converts from Windows and have heard of Wine and are trying it for that last annoying app - just *much more of it*. It's good to see Dan Kegel keeping an eye on wine-users, I hope other devs will glance in occasionally for a useful indicator of just who makes up the Wine user population and what they need - much better than trying to guess what a user *might* need or find useful, or extrapolating only from one's own level of technical skill. - d.
