[ogb-discuss] [osol-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

[Kaiwai Gardiner]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:40 +1200, Ian Collins wrote:
> Alan Burlison wrote:
> > It appears to me that opensolaris-discuss is becoming more and more 
> > dominated with Solaris installation questions, and the OpenSolaris 
> > content is becoming lost in the noise.  Whilst it is very nice that 
> > people are being so helpful, it would seem to me that we should either 
> > be directing people elsewhere (e.g. BigAdmin) or set up a new list 
> > (opensolaris-newbies?) for installation and getting-started questions.
> >
> > What do people think?
> >
> >   
> Well I waged what for a while appeared to be a one man campaign
> redirecting Solaris 10 questions to more appropriate forums. 
> Unfortunately, the help list suffers the same problem.
> 
> Maybe I'll start again, mail lists can very easily get swamped with off
> topic posts if people realise they get answers there.
> 
> I'd suggest a polite redirection of off topic posts, or simply ignore them.

off topic messages can however be very interesting, and in a strange way
eventually loop back to the original topic at hand. Heck, I've been in
networking classes where we did a complete loop from TCP/IP to IP
addresses to networking on a larger scale, Telstra's networking,
someones former experience working for them and going right out to left
field covering the the best kind of pizza to each when drinking a
particular beer - but ultimately it all came back eventually to the
question at hand - be it after 45 minutes of discussing completely off
topic :)

Matthew