In comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc Sherm Pendley <spamtrap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> slashlos <slashlos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
>> It would also be easier for
>> more learned readers to filter noob noise by have a central place. ;-)
>
> I've seen this proposed before, in other group hierarchies, and even
tried
> in a few. It never works, for two reasons:
>
> Many advanced users *want* to see the noob's posts, because they want to
> answer the noobs and be helpful.
>
> Quite a few noobs will post their questions to the "advanced" forum
anyway.
I haven't experienced it on usenet, but I've seen it happen once on IRC
and one on a mailing list. In both cases, the so-called "advanced" forum
was primarily popuulated by people who thought that writing a small
addition to Currency Converted qualified as advanced, and by people who
thought that since advanced people should be much better at answering
their questions, they'd ask all of their "I can't print" questions in the
advanced forum.
In both cases, the advanced forum was completely worthless from the outset
and I abandoned them rapidly.
In the case of, say, the cocoa-dev mailing list it would be nice to have
the non-stop repetitive redundant "I can't print" questions partitioned
off into another place. Not so much because of the questions, but because
they inevitably attract half a dozen wrong answers from the list before
somebody who knows what's going on weighs in, and my correction twitch
just can't stand a subscription to the list. But I realize that, no matter
how nice it might be in theory, in practice it simply won't work.
--
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software
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