Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-22 Thread Brad Knowles
On Dec 18, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > It's under 100 lines, of which almost half were cut-and-pasted from > the existing FAQ 1.22. Most of which I wrote, and which I probably was not in a particularly good mood when I wrote it. It definitely needs re-working. > Anyway, you'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
man which can't really be supported might also be a good idea. Just my 2c as a person who's come on board here in the past couple of months. Geoff. - Original Message - From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" To: Cc: Sent: Friday, 18 December, 2009 3:09 PM Subject:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: > Stephen, with all due respect for the work you put into your post, I > think it goes a bit overboard in the other direction. If I can pose a > question in 6 or 7 lines of text, do I really need to read a couple of > hundred lines of instruction? It's under 100 lines

Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:55 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Somebody-whom-I-don't-want-to-pick-on-in-particular writes: > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:00:34PM -0500, (Some) Poor Fellow > wrote: > > > Thanks > > > > please don't > > (1) reply to list-posts off-list: send them to th

[Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Somebody-whom-I-don't-want-to-pick-on-in-particular writes: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:00:34PM -0500, (Some) Poor Fellow wrote: > > Thanks > > please don't > (1) reply to list-posts off-list: send them to the list; > (2) top-post Given the recent surge in non-traditional list