I can't help feeling that Zope needs a newbies list for people just starting out. It's just such a difficult product to get your head around and this is the only place to seek help, but the range of help sought may be from the plain dumb to the mostly highly complex, so I can see that the experts may get annoyed with seeing the same dumb questions popping up over and over again.
This newbie list issue has come up again and again. Interestingly, the people who are repeatedly attacked as newbie unfriendly (Dieter Maurer, Andreas Jung and others) are the ones who spend a large time answering those newbie requests. Now my question is: Who among the knowledgeable people do you think will participate in the newbies list if the newbies seem to view surveying of existing docs as a huge imposition? jens