On 1 Aug 2002 at 13:51, Mario Michael da Costa wrote: > and always remember, if you ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer or > on this list are told to RTFM live with it.
What you are painting is end effect. As it will go in archives of LI* history. What we need to tell other people are the causes of the same. Here it goes as what I see.. 1)One person asks a question 2)Lot of people feel it's stupid because it's in lot of trivial documentation. 3)The OP does not know it's a stupid question. 4)OP is not used to read documentation and so has ignored the welcome mail from List which does lot of good things if taken seriously.. (This is done before...but still) It's fair that everybody should get one chance to commit stupidity but it's tiring for old list lurkers like many people out here to answers same question at least once per person... The way I have seen list evolving, there is an answer to this.. 1)If you feel question is stupid, keep quite. If somebody is stuck desparately, he will find his ways to documentation, google and archives.. 2)This is sad part of it. When I joined list and started answering some trivial questions, I was under impression that I am taking some burdon off people who can answer a real and possibly unique problem. I keep doing the same till date. I can safely assume that many other folks here do the same.. But I don't see enough fresh blodd induction in this shouting brigade. People come, ask question and leave till they have another problem. That may be OK for some product list like koffice because a user is not supposed to contribute to such lists forever while enjoying benefit of developer vicinity.. But for lists like LI*, it's absolutely essential, IMO.. Some thoughts, I hope somebody fresh starts answering trivias bit more enthusiastically.. Bye Shridhar -- Spence's Admonition: Never stow away on a kamikaze plane. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
