what do you guys think of using a tag for discussion messages? This way people that don't want to weed out lengthy discussions and attachments etc can filter them out of list messages. A tag such as <discussion> in the subject line? Just my two cents.
Larry -----Original Message----- From: Marc Greenstock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Let's start a php-advanced list! Interesting topic, However I don't necessarily agree that newbie's wont get their question answered. There are a lot of helpfully people out there, a lot of them are advanced in their programing but find the satisfaction of helping, or mentoring someone into advanced programming who is less advanced. I know that when i started I posted messages at phpbuilder in the newbie area. I found more often than not I would get a response from someone who cared, and would treat a newbie for what he or she is rather than a just a plain old idiot. My point is; yes advanced users would be separated from beginners, but most of the questions asked in the beginners list would be answered by advanced programmers looking for a bit of 'fuzzy wazzies' :) Two thumbs up for the idea. Marc Ryan A wrote: >>This has come up many times before and I really don't think it will work. >>Splitting advanced users from beginners means that there will be nobody to >>answer the beginner questions which means they will get posted to the >>advanced list where the people with the answers are. It is a >>self-defeating separation. Having everyone in one big lump means that >>both camps and all the camps in between learn from each other. > > >>The other question is who decides what is advanced? Chances are what you >>think is advanced may seem trivial to me, or vice-versa. > > >>-Rasmus > > > True, When I started learning PHP one of the guys who answered most of the > questions > for me and a lot of people was Capt John Holmes, now that dude knows a > ****load of > php (I mean that as a complement). If there was an advanced list he would > probably be > in it and very unlikely that he would also be in the "newbie" list to help > which would have > made my learning curve that much harder. Some other guys who are really > helpful and > advanced are Jason, Chris, Chris, David to name a few..take all of them out > and put them > in the advanced list...and the newbies, not-so-newbies etc will follow just > coz we have no > choice when we run into problems. If only newbies and average knowledge > dudes are in > the "not advance list" it wont work coz the blind leading the blind does not > work. > > My $0.2 > > Cheers, > -Ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
