YO spense - lighten up. spencer at sihope.com wrote: > > > people will bother to read the newbie Q&A list, no one will get > > > their questions answered and the newbies will wither and die, > > > turning tclug in to an elitist society. Which may not be a bad > > > thing, but *cough* ahem... Whatever. Blargh. > > > > Segmenting the list will breed elitism, if there is not enough here > It is also the fundamental element that corporations such as > microf at ck use to keep you as a customer. It plays on the fears of > the consumer so they have no reasonable choice other than to > submit to there "place" in the list. I believe that if you look at the > 1960's and the troubles that arose during the civil rights movement, > you will see the same kinds of segragation. I don't think we need to go any farther with this. : ) > > already. :-) What I have seen work best, is what they do at jdc (java > > develop connection) is to give everyone several hundred java bucks to > > "seed" the rewards board. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. I despise those things. I feel ( ugh - Just seeing those two words together makes me kinda sick ) that the list has been doing marvelously well so far. I am on several list that generate at least 2X the amount of mail and don't have a problem yet. > Then to exploit the situation by sowing the seeds of capitalism you > further pervet the sanctity of knowledge. We are all connected as > humankind just as the filesystem is connected by the / . To battle > over trivial mental superiority is conterproductive to an obvious > common goal we share. That goal as I see it is to be self reliant on > our own resources. That is what open source means to me. When > you try to filter knowledge in any manner that restricts you from > that knowledge you are acting just as the corporation that sells you > a broken non-refundable non-repairable product. This also could stop here. *shivers and feels strangely unclean* > > If you REALLY want an answer, you assign it more java bucks. > If you REALLY want an answer, give an answer and get and > answer and so on and so forth. IMHO -- There is no reason for segmentation of the list. sim