[Tfug] 802.11b Pringle Can Antennas

[Anthony Steckman]

Consider the topic.

As someone who is relatively new to Linux, I've been able to learn a lot 
from this list...

But I've also found the list to be excessively dry, boring, and 
intimidating in a "let's all pretend we're professionals" kind of way.

I had honestly hoped that local Linux users would prove more interesting 
and that there would be some sense of excitement about everything that's 
going on with Unix-based systems.

Instead I occasionally read a long and boring thread that could have 
just as easily been resolved with "RTFM" or instructions to navigate to 
/etc and configure the appropriate file...

Or threads like this one with somebody asking how to make an antenna out 
of a pringles can.

Hell, 90% of the people at TCS are over 60 and their Listserv is 100 
times more interesting than this one. And these are people who are 
primarily using Windows.

Anyway, if this is the culture that is developing around the Linux OS, I 
doubt it stands much of a chance at ever gaining any kind of market share.

I can sum it all up in a single word:

Losers.


Zardus@nbwrpg.com wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Derbe wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>(I didn't put this on the list cause I don't wanna hear any shit.  Ya know?)
>>
> 
> Now this is a prime example of what the flamewars are doing to the list
> (yeah, I know I participated in the last one, but that was the first one
> I've been in on here). We gotta do something about this, or we're gonna
> end up scaring people/knowledge away. Already, there are people not
> posting to the list because they don't wanna deal with some whacko
> replying to them, calling them bungholes, and dissing everything they say.
> 
> - Yan
> 
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