On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI > > <renaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Mailing list now getting clogged up with beginners questions. > > > > > > For me that's it, I'm leaving, and you'll have to find new maintainers for the > > > apps I maintained. > > > > Hmm. That's two people who are upset by the > > increase in newbie questions. > > > > I'm starting to think that perhaps we do need > > to map the existing forum to a wine-users-newbies list. > > I think that amount of segmentation might in fact > > be useful. > > - Dan > > What am I missing here? I have received maybe 10 messages (just a > guess. Maybe more.) in the last couple of days. It doesn't seem (to me > anyway) that this is enough to cause anyone heartburn but clearly > Renaud is upset by this. I receive something in the range of 250-300 > messages a day so I hardly see the increase but there have been a few > more. > > Am I not receiving all the messages? > > Anyway, I wouldn't want app maintainers quiting over something like > this, nor would I prefer to have newbies be without the help of > maintainers also. Instead of changing the users list maybe there needs > to be some sort of maintainers list for folks like Ranaud? > > I'm perfectly happy with whatever you do but if there are two lists > let me know how to get signed up for whatever the new one is. > > Cheers, > Mark > > I don't think we should be turning away those seeking help...That's the whole point of wine-users/the forum. If you didn't want to help, you shouldn't have signed up for it. Putting a couple warnings/links to the FAQ/etc should help the situation.
