Michael Viron wrote: >>That not helping part has been very prevalent lately. I guess everyone >>has been busy trying to enjoy the holidays with their families. I have >>posted many questions that I have not received a singel answer to yet! >> > > Although many people do try to help, please keep in mind that we are (in a > sense) 'volunteering' our time. I know, for example, that as it is I'm > already volunteering time for several groups / organizations (as well as > working full-time)-- Simple End User Linux, Web Spinners, University of > West Florida, Phi Eta Sigma (both National Offices and the local Chapter), > General Education Online, and finally Academic Web Information Repository > -- which leaves me very little time to devote to most anything else. > > If you don't see anything posted to the list, it doesn't mean that we're > trying to ignore anyone, it just usually means that we may be busy with > something or on vacation. > > Michael > > -- > Michael Viron > Registered Linux User #81978 > Senior Systems & Administration Consultant > Web Spinners, University of West Florida
It can also mean that we have trouble understanding your question or inadequate information to answer, or you are using something none of us have seen before... With more than 3000 packages in the downloadable version of the distro, that is becoming more prevalent. But questions with a little history do tend to get answered better. Overkill on information is also something that will delay answers, so try to strike a happy medium, cause an answereer will try to read and understand all the information given on the chance that it might be relevant. It is also helpful sometimes to go spelunking in the archive caverns. I don't answer questions about the bastardized fake hardware RAIDs any longer because I have done it 50 times or more, and all of us have answered one category one time too many--a different category for every helper, most probably. Now I don't take time off from work to do this. I do this to take a break from work, so I try to steer myself away from things I happen to be working on. No one on this list is really obligated to help. They are here because they want to help. Civileme
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