Re: Re: [NEWBIE GUIDE] For the benefit of new members

Greg Donald wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:15:37 +0000, Rory Browne <rory.browne@gmail.com> wrote:

I think sending it to the list every so often, via cron isn't the best way to handle it. I've read it once, I don't see the point in getting it again. Perhaps, is the list admins were willing, it could be set up to be sent to all newbies, as part of the subscription process. To ensure that it is read by all newbies, they'd have to answer certain questions in the body of the confirmation email? The problem of newbies not knowing they are newbies, isn't overcome by cron.

That doesn't seem like a good idea to me. I wouldn't want to take a test just because I need to resubscribe after vacation, or a change of email address. Besides that, if the test is unmonitored, well.. anyway.

agreed - testing is futile, let the test be simply sending an email thats 'worth' answering (according to the 'guidelines').

The Perl solution many years ago was to make a newbie list. My local Linux user group solution last year was to make a newbie list.

i.e. segregate the 'levels' of knowledge. -100. you'll just end up with the blind leading the blind, leads to more crap PHP programmers, leads to php's reputation being negatively compounded, leads to lower (average) paid jobs in phpland. I vote we keep the noobs close :-) or will all you advanced guys/girls spend countless hours repeatedly asking people to post code, use print_r()/var_dump() etc... without so much as halfbaked challenge in sight? me neither ;-)