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Re: Re: Please share your linux experiences....



Hi,

Atul Chitnis typed:
> > And people most of the times get their questions answered - even if
> > its only "refer the archives". It's not like no one takes part -
> > some people ask questions, and others do answer it.
> I am sorry - I disagree. Many people find that their questions are *not*
> being answered. "Refer the archives" is a cop-out way of saying "we have
> answered this question a zillion times, don't bother us with this",
> because the archives are inpenetrable, have no clear pointers to valid
> answers and the correct answer may have been given siz months back. Do you
> seriously expect everyone to scan through the thousands of messages in the
> LI archives trying to find an answer? Have you actually tried this?

OK, this is exactly the reason why the LI FAQ should get moving -
Arun? Has anybody contributed any articles after you started it?

> As for "Then you should have done something about it, started off some
> project which would change the way LIH works." - I tried that many times
> over. You probably didn't notice. Bangalore IT.COM, Bang!inux, the
> partitioning of the lists into logical topics, my work with
> ILUG-Bangalore, my writing, the web site revamp, etc. were all part of
> those efforts.

I was speaking with specific reference to the list, not Linux in
India. Everybody knows that you have done wonders for Linux in India,
but now, what about the list? My point was that if you felt that there
was something wrong with the list, and that the way it works should be
changed, then you should have done something about it. Instead of
quietly dropping out. After all, the list could be called the main
Linux resource in India.

> Can you blame for being bitter about this? I have been pointing people to
> LI for a long time (no, this is *not* annecdotal - check any article of
> mine), but how do you think I feel when I look at
> http://lists.linux-india.org/archive/linux-india-help/200003 and look at
> the replies column on the right, almost all of which show "0"?

Don't you feel that this problem can be remedied? And, BTW, if you
happened to be on the list, probably the number of zeroes would have
been less. If this is the reason why you left the list, well, I don't
understand it.

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