At 08:44 AM 09/19/2001 -0700, Jon wrote:
>Ditto. If you don't like spam quit hanging in the canned good
>section. You need to realize that RC might not be signed up with the
>".iso" mailing list so he might choose to reach out to some of these more
>well trafficked maillists for friendly queries. I don't have a problem
>with that. No one should have a problem with questions that "don't quite
>fit" the group subject
I refer you to this section in the FAQ for this very mailing list:
2.2 - What is this list _not_ for?
SPAM
Homework
Solicitation
Things that aren't Perl related
Monkeys
Monkeys solicitating homework on non-Perl related SPAM.
I'll leave you to decide which categories that the post falls under.
> Everyone should
>have a problem with people who scold people publicly on this maillist
No...people should have a problem with people who publically and RUDELY
flame people for making honest mistakes. On the other hand, people should
be mature and thick-skinned enough not to take rebuke pesonally and learn
from thier mistake. The answer is NOT to let such people "get away" with it
for the sake of "being nice".
Like all communities in the real world and on the internet, this mailing
list has to abide by certain social norms in order to maintain a semblance
of order and efficiency. And this means *not* rewarding clearly off-topic
questions with answers posted to the rest of the list. I've been on way too
many mailing lists where nobody bothered to enforce this simple rule, and
as such, the list eventually became unreadable due to everyone using it as
a 24 hour helpdesk on /everything/ computer related, even if it didnt apply
to the topic of the list.
There is absolutely no reason to post off-topic messages like that when
there are already other forums (and search engines) that exist to answer
such questions. A simple search on groups.google.com would have revealed
the answer to the OP's question in less than 5 seconds.
That being said, I think it was entirely inappropriate for some people to
flame the OP in the manner that they did. This is not comp.lang.perl.misc.,
if you want to be a bully to newbies, then you probably should hang out
there instead ;)
Aloha,
mel
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