Hi Jacob:Ideally, everyone would read the WIKI, the Manual, the FAQ, and the Netiquette guidelines. It's not like these things are hidden - they are posted at the bottom of every message sent to this list.
It's just a fact of life that we're going to always be dealing with people who'd rather take other people's time to get their answers rather than do research themselves. I wish http://lmgtfy.com/ (Let Me Google That For You) were accessible since it is a wonderful passive aggressive way to respond to people who don't have a clue.
As a moderator of this list, I don't have the time to moderate every single message coming through. I would be a severe bottleneck and would probably only get to the messages once a day. This would hurt on-topic discussion. As a member of this list, however, I have the same ability everyone else does, which is to IGNORE OFF TOPIC MESSAGES -- DELETE THEM -- DON'T RESPOND TO THEM. Or, if you are feeling remotely helpful, just respond by pointing the user to a more appropriate mailing list. Once you help someone with an off topic message, you're sunk. It's like feeding a dog scraps off the table.
Will On May 27, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hello Look, I don't really want to be rude or anything... but this has absolutely nothing to do with Orca at all. I'm not a moderator, so consider this a plea to the moderators... can we keep the list more ontopic? I can't count the number of off-topic threads I've looked throughlately. Distro questions, installation problems... most of these have absolutely nothing to do with Orca or GNOME accessibility in general. It seems every accessibility list starts turning into a general tech support list... can we not let that happen here, please? Thanks, all flames to /dev/null of course. _______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list Orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.htmlThe FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsNetiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/ NetiquetteGuidelines