On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Tut, tut. More regimentation. Don't we get enough regimentation from our
> governments?
No-one keeps you from asking question, but maybe you'll admit that
answering the same question more than 3 times in a single month puts
a certain straint upon us ;-). Furthermore if this question is dealt
with right from the front page of mandrakeuser.org, Mandrake's
support page *and* the official Mandrake FAQ.
See, the traffic is quite heavy here and some people may have really
severe and difficult problems. If their requests for help are drowned
by questions about well-documented quirks, this would be very sad.
In addition to that: your question *has* been answered, hasn't it?
> Reading the archives will certainly help, assuming that the
> answer is in the archives and that you don't accidentally overlook the
> answer, and be sure that you don't overlook the answer because you don't
> want you hands slapped because it has already been asked.
Nobody slapped your hands. I intentionally put my suggestion into
another thread, saying I was annoyed. Not by you, but by the pure
fact that some questions are asked again and again. I apologized
nevertheless to you but you haven't cared to answer my apology.
> Before I get
> glued to my soapbox I will add that here in Texas it doesn't bother us to
> help someone even if the question has been asked before.
Again, your question has been answered. And I made a proposition to
make it even easier by collecting the most frequently asked questions
and answers in a list. What's so wrong about that?
> I have 15 or 20
> pounds of Linux books, and the answers are frequently not there.
> Gordon von Miller
> Lockhart, TX
Regards
tom
>
>
> > I know we wanna make Linux more 'user
> > friendly', but if people are being handed all their answers on a platter,
> > they won't learn to search or use external resources...
> >
> > >From the time I first used my first *NIX till now I always search archives
> > first/'the web' and then ask the lists.... how hard can it be for anyone else
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Geoff Croxson
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