Ralph Malph wrote:

> Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au> wrote:
> > Hi readers!
>
> > Since my first install of Slackware Linux (thank you Microsoft for
> > Win95!) I have been relating to this newsgroup.
> > "As time goes by" I noticed a significant change in the way that
> > self-proclaimed newcomers post their problems.
> > The "HELP!!! what is happening around me?" posts almost completely
> > disappeared and most problems seem to be of the
> > "hidden" variety where some knowledge of the OS and apps is evident.
>
> > Now I wonder what is going on?
>
> That's easy. Because of posters like Roger Maynard, the ng developed
> the reputation of being a spam haven. Coward Roger Maynard and
> his like are destroying the linux experience for many potential
> users.
>
> I understand that there is a 5,000 dollar bounty available to the
> person who makes Roger Maynard the rec.sports.baseball troll stop
> posting.
>
> cordially, as always,
>
> rm

pathetic loser trash troll delete
--
Roger Maynard is a Pathetic loser!
Killfile all posts that end with
"cordially, as always"!

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pathetic loser trash troll delete
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Roger Maynard is a Pathetic loser!
Killfile all posts that end with
"cordially, as always"!

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 04:24:32 +0000, Stanislaw Flatto wrote:

> Hi readers!
>
> Since my first install of Slackware Linux (thank you Microsoft for
> Win95!) I have been relating to this newsgroup.
> "As time goes by" I noticed a significant change in the way that
> self-proclaimed newcomers post their problems.
> The "HELP!!! what is happening around me?" posts almost completely
> disappeared and most problems seem to be of the
> "hidden" variety where some knowledge of the OS and apps is evident.
>
> Now I wonder what is going on?
>
> a) Slackware became "easy"
> b) Humanity advanced in huge steps in those few years.
>
> Comments welcome
>
> Stanislaw
> Slack user from Ulladulla.

Slackware is not hard to understand (i think that the other distros with
their SysV, their custom tools/GUIS e their highly patch kernels a real
pain in the ass), there is a lot of information in the net and a lot of
the new internet users don't even know the term "newsgroups" - portuguese
reality , sad but true...

Cláudio Silva
ps - if someone can't see my name right, please tell me, i'll stop using
the accent...

Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au> wrote in message news:<4Ka%c.1002$aA.34057@news.optus.net.au>...
> Hi readers!
>
> Since my first install of Slackware Linux (thank you Microsoft for
> Win95!) I have been relating to this newsgroup.
> "As time goes by" I noticed a significant change in the way that
> self-proclaimed newcomers post their problems.
> The "HELP!!! what is happening around me?" posts almost completely
> disappeared and most problems seem to be of the
> "hidden" variety where some knowledge of the OS and apps is evident.
>
> Now I wonder what is going on?
>
> a) Slackware became "easy"
> b) Humanity advanced in huge steps in those few years.
>
> Comments welcome

The reason is twofold:
1) my excellent article posted at OSNews a year and a half ago:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3329
:-)

2) me having stopped posting _too_ dumb questions :-)
Thanks to the group and ... Slackware :-)

Anyway, the discussion is the best Slackware-related reading ever!
:-)


Mikhail