[MPlayer-users] Re: No video with WMV

Sven Hartge hartge at ds9.argh.org
Sat Dec 1 15:04:13 CET 2001


Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> schrieb:
> On Friday 30 November 2001 07:23, Sven Hartge wrote:
>> JAF <jaf.corporation at gmx.at> schrieb:

>>> what about of splitting this mailinglist?
>>> one for newbies of MPlayer etc. (and no arpi in the list ;-) )
>>> and one of real problems ?

>> Does not work.

>> The newbie-List will be dead very soon, and the Pro-List will be the
>> same as this list is just now.

> i doubt that, i mean if u have a newbie list where users awnser ur
> questions and a pro list where u get a RTFM awnser ...

Problem is: All people with knowledge will soon leave the newbie-list,
leaving behind people with no or (which is even worse), half-knowledge.

Then the newbies will start asking in the pro-list, where they think are
the people with knowledge.

I have seen this beeing tried in many projects mailinglists or
newsgroups, and it failed every single time it was tried.

S!

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