James McKenzie skrev:
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
Mailing list now getting clogged up with beginners questions.
At one time WE all were beginners.
Actually, I can't recall that I was ever a "beginner" in this sense. I
remember downloading Wine and toying with it, trying to get stuff to
run, looking through the source code to figure out what was wrong, and
then submitting patches. I can't remember ever asking newbie questions
on the newsgroup (yeah, newsgroup, this was before the mailing lists -
and I think I was involved when they were created). Then again, my
memory could be faulty, I suppose.
But I'm pretty sure Alexandre wasn't much of a nuisance to the Wine
developers when he started out...
Looking through the current state of wine-users, I'd too agree that the
quality of the list has dropped through the floor. Even those forum
users who appear diligent about giving helpful and informative answers
to other forum users, are clueless half the time and occasionally even
propagate misinformation.
The other day, I did almost reply to a forum user with a more
interesting question than most, but decided against it - it being more
interesting didn't really make it less ignorant, and trying to answer
his question *without* also using offensive words wasn't really worth
the possible risk of ulcer.
