Looking for good souls

goran at krampe.se goran at krampe.se
Wed Apr 26 11:11:38 UTC 2006


Hi!

"Ralph Johnson" <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> On 4/26/06, goran at krampe.se <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
> > Ehm... that would sortof defeat the purpose of having a list that
> > newbies *dare* posting to because of the intimidation factor in posting
> > to the large and rather knowledgeable squeak-dev list, right?
> 
> Not really.  People usually decide to join a list after looking at the
> archive.  THey would look at the "help" archives and see lots of questions,
> followed by good answers.  They would say "this looks like a good place for
> me to ask my questions", and they would have no idea how many people are
> actually reading the list.
[SNIP]

Yes, you are probably right.

> My only concern is that splicing the lists together would require someone to
> do some work, and I don't want to wait around until it happens, because
> things like that can be low priority and take a long time to get done.  I'd
> like to see the newbie list created ASAP and then for someone to splice the=
> together "soon".
>
> -Ralph Johnson

Agree. I assume we have exhausted this subject by now and that the board
(through the box admins) just creates the list. ;)

regards, Göran



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