While it's certain that people join the Gentoo mailing list (or any other mailing list for that matter) to get help with the software...I think that in some respects some times folks are not being mature with respect to the community aspect of the list and in other cases are outright abusing the list (which I myself have done as well)
I think that we should make some rules for the list. For example on the BIND mailing list, one of the rules was before you submitted a post, you needed to do some research online and check the archieves, b/c if you didn't then you got dogged out (and (perhaps) rightly so) for it. While it is mentioned that there are no official archieves at: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Folks can find certain answers and postings if they use google... This is just a suggestion, and I certainly apologize if I offend anyone with it, but I think that we want to maintain the list as a center of high quality discussion and information sharing, and not get bogged down with redundant issues. Shawn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
