Quality of Ubuntu List

[Amedee Van Gasse (on Ubuntu mailing lists)]

On Sat, October 10, 2009 18:39, Allen Meyers wrote:

> Hi there
>
> Sometime back I lost patience with a few of the over active mouthy
> list members and backed off the in terns of asking questions, but
> continued to read the posts in silence. I have both 9.04 and Lenny and
> subscribe to that forum in a fairly active manner. I left one list
> because of mouthy "word war" prevaricators to learn there is no
> getting away from them. There is only learning to live with them and
> try not to let them be representative of Linux in the eye of the
> newbie.
> Lists forums, and the experienced giving users are the back bone of
> growth.
> There are OS's less tolerant of newbies, believe me I know. Suse was
> one of my early learning endeavors and I almost gave up on Linux
> thinking they represented Linux.
> Ubuntu and users like "tell it like it is" Amedee represent that
> backbone I commented on earlier.
> Those that remember my "dumb" questions and were patient with a user
> approaching 80 deserve my respect and gratitude. Because of them I may
> not be a guru yet  but Ubuntu and folks like Amedee allowed me to step
> out of the newbie class and climb a few rungs in the Linux ladder. Hey
> Amedee stay after those a holes, cut em off at the pass.

Hey Allen,

Remember that this is *sounder*, the off topic list.
There are no rules here
(only great scotch)

You don't see me engaging in "word wars" on the official list, do you?
Here on sounder I like to say what I think, like it or not, without a lot
of cognitive filters.

But on the official list I *try* to help. I am only a newbie that has
learned a lot from the list, and by learning I have realized that there is
even more that I don't know. I don't think that I will ever be able to
give back to the community what it gave me, but I try. Not because I am
supposed to give back, but because I want it.

Kind regards,

Amedee Van Gasse
amedee at vangasse.eu