This is not the mailing list you're looking for. Re: [Yum] Uninstalling Fedora 4

Michael Steinfeld michaelssteinfeld at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 19 03:54:17 UTC 2005


hmm, I think it's a bit more devious. I had the notion
earlier that someone was manually creating gmail
accounts to the spam the list. Motives? Well, that is
what I thought, why?

I'd like to believe all the post are righteous.
Then again, as humans we are quite incredulous.

--mike

--- Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/18/05, Greg Knaddison
> <greg.knaddison at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone else noticing a large number of non-yum/ug
> items on here recently?
> >
> Yes, but to be fair, it doesn't seem to be just this
> list.
> 
> > Any ideas what is going on?
> 
> Best guess (yanked in un-edited form from my ass)
> would be that we're
> seeing a a wave of windows users coming into linux
> via fedora ( a
> large number of questions seem to at  least include
> the word 'fedora'
> in them somewhere ) and windows users aren't overly
> used to the
> mailing list form of communication, or locating the
> proper one for
> their given dilemma. I recommend politely pointing
> them in the right
> direction for assistance. I'd hate to hammer home
> the idea that we're
> all elitist snobs unwilling to help. Linux forces
> need the userbase,
> so we're going to have to teach the windows people
> how to think
> properly in certain contexts.
> 
> /soapbox zealotry
> --
> Jim Perrin
> System Architect - UIT
> Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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