Hi; If Bill Strosberg's opinion represents the general or even minority feeling of this list, I will go elsewhere. On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 12:42 -0400, Bill Strosberg wrote: > All: > > I've brought up this topic before as gently as I can. > > I do not subscribe to the general list at all as the far off topic > chatter and obnoxious personalities there were too much for me to take. > I freely offered to create and host a general purpose off-topic list > server to keep all the fruits and nuts in a pleasant and appropriate > home - no takers. > > I subscribe to this list to both answer and post questions on topics > that have to do with Linux and open source software. As a professional > working in the field, the value of this forum and the people in it is > important to me. > I have been sending to the tech list because I had been told that was the appropriate list for my type of question. > My issue has to do with people using the forum and expertise within to > provide remedial-level unpaid education services on unending and > tangentially expanding topics. All of us working in the field have > acquired our knowledge through experience, extended higher education and > substantial effort. I find it somewhat annoying when people short > circuit this process to gain superficial knowledge (for no apparent > purpose other than idle curiosity) at the expense of the members of this > forum. > When I post a question it is because I have an immediate and important > issue to resolve. These issues are always attached to real world > situations where expert help can make a difference. > > I would hate to lose the ability to pose questions to the people here > because they became tired of the role of free Coles Notes for the > Technically Fascinated. > > Please note that the member who is generating the traffic is > unquestionably polite, earnest and honest in his efforts to learn. This > isn't an ad hominen attack - rather it is an effort to maintain focus > and purpose. If the member to whom I am speaking would make the effort > to publicly publish and share the knowledge freely given to him with > others (in the true spirit of open source) I could easily be convinced > to cease my objections. Create a wiki-style site. Help others as > people have helped you. Or stop asking. > No one has ever asked me, what my final intentions were, either as to the eventual use of knowledge gained or any writeups that I am doing. > -- > Bill Strosberg > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux I am not going away miffed, I have run into this attitude my entire working life. I do wish to thank those that have been helpful and who have engaged in conversations with me via these postings. -- Regards Bill