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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:11:46 +0000
To: "W. B. Maguire II" <Maguire@AnalyticInvestments.com>

I didn't see your original mail, as although I subscribe to the list I don't
often get the time to read it all, I will however go back and find it now. I do
have a kernel (2.4.18 I'm afraid) wit rocket raid module. Which I would be happy
to send you to try if you wish. I'll read your mail and check it has all else
you need, and see if I can see the best way for you to apply it.
Jeff

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W. B. Maguire II wrote:
> At 10:03 AM 2/2/04 -0700, you wrote:
> 
>> On 2004-02-02, Uwe Dippel penned:
>> > This was on Slashdot and this is what I see around me.  Very good,
>> > applause !
>> >
>> > ... However, this list gets out of hands. With a few hundered posts
>> > per day; it's almost impossible to follow.
> 
> 
> 
> Wow...  I was *just* considering whether I should take the time to post 
> a message before un-subscribing to the list.  Since someone *else* 
> brought-up the subject, I hope that my one, small opinion will be of help.
> 
> 
>> > How about creating sub-topics ? Newbies, X, Kernel (2.6),
>> > Applications, Advocating, General Discussion, Printing, you-name-it.
>> > I'd like to learn, share and give, but currently about 80-90 % of what
>> > I see is repetition, noise, shallow. Even clicking through
>> > (downloading) takes simply too much time.
> 
> 
> 
> Yes!  More discretization is definitely needed!
> 
> 
>> I think that genuine newbies who don't know how to find information in
>> the first place, and may not know which domain applies to their
>> particular problems, anyway, will end up posting to the "wrong" list
>> anyway, and getting flamed for it ... causing more noise ...
> 
> 
> 
> Wrong, IMO!  I think it is quite arrogant to dismiss a "newbie" list 
> because of an attitude that "newbies would be too dumb to find it!"  
> *I'm* a Debian newbie, and *I* spent the time to find-out which list I 
> should use for help on installing the distro!  Just because I'm a 
> *Debian* newbie doesn't mean that I'm a complete idiot, and that there's 
> no use trying to split-off a list for new users like me!  Sheesh!
> 
> And what about discretization in other areas?  I asked a question about 
> the Debian install (3.0 r1) not recognizing my HDDs connected to a 
> Rocket-133 PCI-IDE card (a few days ago---titled "New Debian install + 
> Rocket133 = no HDDs!  (Please help...").  I followed-up my first post 
> with some details I forgot (like the version of Debian and the fact that 
> I tried *all* the installs, starting with the 2.4 kernel).  I included 
> *lots* of detail---as much as I reasonably could.  Please look!  I spent 
> a *long* time composing the e-mail, so that I could provide a 
> reasonably-well-formed question.  The result?  I got *one* reply (thank 
> you!), but it suggested: (1) use the "bf24" install---which I was 
> already doing, and (2) build a new kernel for the install---an issue 
> which I had addressed in my follow-up post (basically saying that I'd 
> never compiled a kernel before, and even if I *did* compile a new 
> kernel, I didn't know how to use *that* kernel for a Debian installation).
> 
> The end result?  The end result is unfortunate for Debian.  I really 
> *did* want to try Debian, but with the only response I got to my 
> hour-long-researching-post being "compile your own kernel", that pretty 
> much shut this new-comer down!  So, I'm probably going to be using 
> Gentoo instead.  I don't know yet whether I can get the Gentoo install 
> to work with my Rocket-133 raid disks (created with a Red Hat 9 
> install), but the documentation for Gentoo is very friendly, and I'm 
> hoping that if I have a problem that I'll be able to get help---without 
> my request for help getting drowned in a sea of 200 messages per day 
> (and where many of the messages are just about general-interest or 
> opinion topics---not experienced users helping new users).  In the few 
> days that I have been on this list, I can say that I have seen many, 
> many requests for help go unanswered.
> 
> Maybe I'll be able to give Debian a try at some point in the future, but 
> at this point, it feels almost unsupported to me.  I'm not saying that 
> there's no help here, I'm just saying that the volume is *crushing*, and 
> that it seems that many of the requests for help are being lost in the 
> volume!
> 
> 
>> If there are many things you'd like to know about, why don't you post
>> and ask about them?  No one is forcing you to read through all of the
>> myriad threads on this list.  Just mark uninteresting threads "deleted"
>> and move on.
>> -- 
>> monique
> 
> 
> 
> It sounds to me that you imply that anyone who doesn't have a good mail 
> client just shouldn't bother with this list.  I, myself, haven't had the 
> time to migrate to Mutt on my RH9 Linux box, so I'm temporarily 
> putting-up with Eudora on Win98 (even though I *hate* it and Windows!).  
> Once again, I find your attitude elitist.  Fine, maybe you and your 
> *good* e-mail client can handle the volume on this list, but what about 
> me and my *Windoze-average/crappy* e-mail client?  If the new Linux user 
> *must* run Mutt (or any other good Linux client) to post to this group, 
> then the majority of new Linux users are excluded.
> 
> Bruce.
> 
> p.s.  I'll stick-around for another day or so, to see the responses to 
> this thread, but in the meantime I'm Gentoo-ing!  :-)
> 
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