Hi
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Michael Trimarchi,
please note that the old list at SourceForge is dead. Don;t use it any more.
I know that. I didn't check before sending
In message 4B7B95EB.4030008@gandalf.sssup.it you wrote:
What do you think about a mailing list for newbie? So people can ask there and someone can help them in the startup. The welcome message can give them all the info to init:
What would that help? Nothing.
Some people use u-boot and do little change and some people contribute a lot to the project. So a lot of these mails can go there. In a long term I think that is good for the project but this is my personal opinion
Guess how many people I refer to documents like http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html or http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html do actually _read_ this stuff?
The problem was not a newbie issue, but ignorance - not bothering to think a second how anybody could provide help based on zero information.
I feel 42 is a perfectly reasonable answer to the question :-)
Agree
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
Best Regards Michael Trimarchi