[H-GEN] request for comments: beginners list

[Arjen Lentz]

Hi Clinton,

On 07/04/2008, at 4:47 PM, Clinton Roy wrote:
> What do people think about having a beginners humbug mailing list?
>
> It would be targeted at newbies, everyone would have be to be extra
> patient, and extra nice; no question would be too dumb.
>
> Who would be interested in using such a list? Who would be interested
> in being a helper on such a list?
>
> Feel free to respond to me privately or publicly as you see fit.


I think the idea is good, but you do need to pick the medium to suit.
An online forum is probably the most appropriate.
Others can follow through RSS or email if they wish, modern forum  
systems support that kind of foo ;-)

Newbies are much more likely to use an online forum than they are  
subscribing to a mailing list.
This may, actually, be something that could be done best on a national  
level through LinuxAU, and it'd be great if each local LUG actively  
participated in it with various people. But locally could work fine  
too, and reduce the size of the individual forums so that people don't  
get scared by high traffic. As long they get busy enough to look  
alive, it's fine.


Cheers,
Arjen.
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