From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" Date: 2008-05-04T00:21:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby mentoring El Sábado, 3 de Mayo de 2008, Michael T. Richter escribió: > If, for example, I were to be luka luka's mentor, he > would email me with his questions and I would answer those I know the > answers to and research the answers (including forwarding the question > here) to any I didn't know. Doesn't it break the concept of a maillist? this is: public questions and public responses so everyone can read them or search for them later and learn. > if you don't want your inbox spammed with a thousand different > answers to each of your questions, Is't easier to tell people not to ask a thread if there are already a correct response? IMHO, this is a typicall issue of any maillist, but the solution is not allowing individual questions, but showing how to do the questions, showing where and how to search before ask an already answered question and showing maillist rules. In any maillist there are always expert level people, intermediate level people and newbies. Maybe intermediate level people should reply to easy questions and expert level people just to intermediate or high level questions. The issue is that usually a expert spents time answering an easy question that any other guy with no so much level could answer perfectly. Just my opinion. Best regards. -- Iñaki Baz Castillo