On 3/18/2011 11:49 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/18/2011 10:26 AM, Joe Konecny wrote: >> On 3/18/2011 11:00 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> But no one is selling a product here. >> >> It is being sold in a metaphorical sense. > > So, do I get a metaphorical commission if I help metaphorically sell > copies to people who won't bother to read the docs?
It's not about selling backuppc in the sense that you get money. It's about promoting. I used the word "selling" to describe what I would do if I had a product to make money off of. If I was making money sales from some product I would answer questions regardless of who read what. I would want to promote/sell in spite of how well I perceived my users to have read the docs. >>> It works, it is simple and >>> elegant, it does some things that nothing else does, and if someone asks >>> a question that some other user has solved recently it will get an >>> answer. >> >> Well if you count rtfm as an answer then I agree. > > If someone won't read the docs or google for existing solutions, how > much else can you do? But I think if you look through the list archives > you'll see answers where the questions are specific enough to actually > have an answer and common enough that someone else knows it. You point them to the locations and even paragraphs of docs to read. Maybe even post snippets of docs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
