I did some research on Tom's question...not vast amounts, but I poked around and couldn't find an answer. At that point I decide, do I post an 'I don't know' or nothing at all. I went with nothing at all thinking someone else may know. The question itself was very odd, I wasn't even sure where to begin searching.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]>wrote: > > As Tom commented ... he posted a Windows question recently and got no > > responses. Frequently now I post a tech question and get one or two > > replies and sometimes none. > > I don't remember exactly what Tom's question was, but I do remember that it > wasn't anything I'd seen, and that I didn't know the answer offhand. A > quick > search didn't turn anything up, and I didn't have time at that point for > anything more thorough. I did try, and I suspect that others did too. > > Many questions do get answered pretty quickly. Fred Holmes asked a question > on 4/12 that got answered in 12 minutes. Dr. Altus's question yesterday > about taskbar balloons was answered in pretty short order. But I think > there > are a lot of times when the symptoms are just plain odd and no one here has > an immediate answer. > > What I notice is that a whole lot of the posts these days are neither > questions nor useful/interesting information: they are potshots, and often > gratuitous potshots at that. Why, for example, was a link to a picture of a > crashed Xbox posted? What was the point? Does Apple hardware never crash? > There's a lot of this, I don't see the purpose of it, and I wish it would > stop. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
