[Lincs] noob lurking around the edges

[M Barnes]

I Hole heartedly agree with you m8, Im on the mail list ,I've helped out one or two people never a thank you ..... not that that's what I was after.
I've asked a few questions and was holey ignored so as you say the message that this group is giving out to potential new Linux users is wrong and needs sorting out ASAP.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Mawson 
  To: lincs at mailman.lug.org.uk 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 4:26 PM
  Subject: [Lincs] noob lurking around the edges


  Just reading the latest mailing and I hope nobody minds but I've got two pence worth. I'm a relatively new Linux user and I've dived into it full tilt. I have a pc and two laptops and so far I've installed and used most of the major distros and a few of the minor ones too. I've ironed out wrinkles in my wireless network, configured graphics cards etc and I hope I'm getting reasonably proficient. 

   I thought the way forward would be to join the LLUG and bounce a few ideas round, pick up some tips and generally communicate with a few like-minded people. I "attended" a recent IRC meeting and, sorry to say, was quite disappointed. Most of the chat went right over my head as one or two others were determined to prove their superior knowledge, there was no welcome as such and the meeting degenerated into a rather puerile discussion about potential layouts for the web-site interspersed with some seriously dodgy homophobic comments. 

   Sorry if I've offended anybody but I don't think recruitment is your problem; retention of interest may be.

   

  David Mawson



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