Searching files through blinux-list?

["Ann K. Parsons" <akp eznet net>]

Hi all,

Hans, I must protest.  First of all, if a person doesn't know how to
search for information in the archives, it can prove difficult.
Second, if the person is not aware that certain questions are
off-topic, yelling at them because they ask an off-topic question is
counter productive. 

Here's a suggestion.  Why don't you, like other responsible
listowners, write a welcome message that goes out to each new
subscriber.  In that message you tell them what's on and off topic,
you give some instructions on how to search the web site and maybe you
answer some of the most regularly answered questions, like what flavor
of linux should I use?

I've said this before, and I'll say it again, guys.  You folks, or
most of you, are techies.  You wouldn't know how to write curricula if
it stood up and bit you.  You have no idea in the world how to teach
anyone to do anything, much less have any conception that there are
different learning styles and some people just can not use some
methods for learning.  

I'm going to spend the next free moment I have searching your blessed
archives to find the instructions for subbing to the newbies' list.
That info might also be good to have in the welcome message. 

Being a techie is fine, but being a bohr is not!  I'm particularly
disgusted with the person who's answer to a question consisted in how
to press the buttons of a mouse.  IMHO *that* message was *off-topic*!

Ann P.
  Hans Zoebelein writes:
 > I think it is OK to point people to search engines when they are
 > looking for a file. People have to become independent and have to
 > learn how to extract information out of the Net. 
 > 
 > It is a faster and a more economic solution to use a search engine than to
 > ask all list members for a file. To address this issue, requests for
 > files which can be found through every search engine should be considered
 > off topic for blinux-list.
 > 
 > BTW svlpro is also available at the Blinux file archive
 > http://leb.net/pub/blinux/square1/eurisco.mirror/
 > 
 > Good search engines are
 > files:		http://ftpsearch.lycos.com
 > files:		http://www.webcrawler.com
 > web and files:	http://www.altavista.com
 > web and files:	http://www.hotbot.com
 > 
 > 
 > Enjoy!
 > Hans
 > (maintainer blinux-lists)
 > 
 > 
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