On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:04, Philip Tellis wrote: > It's been a very long time since I've had to ask a question on a mailing > list. The answer is either in the docs already, or on some mailing list > archives. You just have to be willing to spend 4-8 hours (or more) > doing some research. > > If you think that that's too much, consider this: > > Time for you to research: 8 man hours
Well, I cannot research on a production server. If it was a simple issue like reconfiguring some service, I would have gone through with it. But something as critical as re-installing a supposedly installed db? Noooo! > > Time for you to write the mail: 5-10minutes > Time for one list member to read the mail: 5minutes > Time for all 1016 list members to read the mail: 83 man hours > > What's more expensive? Since you're at the topic, how much time do you think it will take for me to intimate RH about my issue, for them to analyze it, research it and then for them to reply? Regards, NMK. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
