[Hand Holding] was [ANNOUNCE] New mailing list: fedora-selinux

[Dale A. Raby]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:01:23PM -0600, Andrew Robinson wrote:

Hand-holding is necessary to teach anyone anything from sex to nuclear 
physics.  I am not much of a computer geek, I am more of a writer and a 
photographer.... among other things, but when a newbie asks me a 
question, I try to help, if I can.  Cutting them off at the knees helps 
no one and certainly does not promote the use of Linux... which ought to 
be SOP for anyone in the Linux "Community".  The only dumb question 
really is the one that is not asked!

> Aaron Matteson wrote:
> 
> >I think having to explain everything in every announcement is pretty
> >rediculous. It should be common knowledge, even for new windows
> >imagrants to use google. More and more time and energy are being spent
> >on holding-the-newbies-hand in addition to changing his/her diapers for
> >them.
> >
> >Common people, if you do not know something typing google.com is a hell
> >of a lot easier then typing out an email to bitch.
> >
> > 
> >
> I respectfully disagree. No, the announcer does not have to explain 
> everything. But I don't see the huge effort in supplying a sentence or 
> two to describe what the software does. After the first announcement, it 
> would be canned anyway.
> 
> I've been working with Unix since 1988. I appreciate that Linux gives me 
> the power of Unix for the cost of PC hardware. But the volume and 
> variety of software is vastly greater for Linux than for any Unix 
> variant I ever worked with in the past. If you have developed some 
> software that you think would be useful to me or others, tell us about 
> it! If you expect me to discover it, I probably will not. And that's a 
> loss for both of us.
> 
> You are correct, it would have been far easier for me to google 
> "SELinux" than type out an email to bitch. The reason I went to the 
> trouble was to make a point I thought would be useful to the community. 
> I apolgize for phrasing it in a manner that ruffled feathers.
> 
> Andrew Robinson
> 
> 
> -- 
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20040307/577370c1/attachment-0001.sig>