[KLUG Members] No "pure" Windows questions, please!!! -- WAS: Website locks up Win95

[John Bridleman]

* Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org) wrote:
> >Patrick, I know it is hard to find good, free, community-based
> >Windows support.  
> 
> If not impossible.  I sympathize with Pat and have often thought "I'll
> bet someone in KLUG has seen this before" when dealing with baffling
> Windows issues.  But I think the list should remain clean of "'pure'"
> Windows questions for both pragmatic and political reasons.
> 
> Politically - I think hosting Windows oriented lists or even threads
> damages the credibility of KLUG's message.  As well as possibly
> attracting hordes of people not in the least bit interested in our 
> message.  Yes,  finding good Windows support is just shy of impossible. 
> But isn't that also one of the prime advantages of open source.
> 

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John Bridleman / john@bridleman.org