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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am not sure what is being proposed here – is this list, QGIS-User to close or move?<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Are we then to ban “lazy” users from asking “trivial questions” because QGIS is so well documented.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Well, how helpful is that approach? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The QGIS community includes new starter as well as the experts and inevitably basic questions will be asked (another would be about Dfx and Dwg files not projecting). They are asked as the users are in need of help and may not have the time to “do the research”. If you are starting out these are not trivial questions rather, they stem from deep frustration that things are not working as they are supposed to. So, when they turn to this list for help they are told sorry it’s too trivial? Is that really in the spirit of the open-source community?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I propose that a QGIS-Elite user group be set up and those who want to can move there leaving us Users to ask our trivial and unresearched questions in this forum. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Cheers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Dr Iain Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>JCIS Consultants <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>President Royal Australian Historical Society<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>P.O. Box 2397<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Burwood North<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>NSW, 2134<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>(02) 9701 0191<br>(0413) 380116 (m)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>