Technical support, not general discussions (Was: basic)

[Raquel]

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:19:04 +0100
Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:

> Tero Pesonen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 14:59 +0100, Odd wrote:
> >> Geeeze, people. No wonder people are turned away from Linux,with
> >> the kind of 'help' they get here. How about some courtesy and
> >> flexibility for newcomers? I've seen lots of others asking for
> >> this kind of help in the past, without getting this kind of
> >> dismissal. Thanks, Amedee, you're a real 'champ'. :-(
> > 
> > Why is this list titled "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
> > general discussions" instead of "Ubuntu user support, not for
> > general discussions"? Where is "non-technical" (whatever that is)
> > support?
> 
> How about some courtesy and flexibility for newcomers?
> 
> -- 
> Odd

Just an observation.  How can the answer that Amedee gave be
tolerated in light of "discussions" such as the recent "32 or 64??"
"discussion"?

This list can be used for 2 purposes; calling each other names and
getting rid of possible new users?

-- 
Raquel
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