On Sunday 12 Feb 2006 1:09 am, आनंद (Anand M R) wrote: > On 2/11/06, Dinesh Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 10 February 2006 20:43, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > > On Friday 10 February 2006 19:29, Rony Bill wrote: > > > > 2. If a member asks for a solution that requires him/her to > > > > refer to the manual, instead of saying "rtfm" or "Ever > > > > heard of google" or "Don't you have access to google", he > > > > is simply given another preset phrase " This problem can be > > > > solved by refering to the manual and even searching google > > > > for it. If you still face problems, then please post a > > > > report on what you did so far and at what point are you > > > > facing problems". > > > > > > I would also add some link to the documentation if I know it. > > > Some people want to read the documentation, but they're just > > > not good at finding it. > > > > > > I had this incident in the #linux-india channel, where I > > > asked for the time of that Mark Shuttleworth's meet. Some > > > fellow asked me to Google for it, even when he knew the time. > > > Moreover commenting that I should learn to find stuff myself. > > > I wonder.. why is it a problem to answer such a simple query > > > as that than to make me spend some time Googling for a > > > perfectly simple answer available at hand? > > > > The two things are not comparable. But anyway that n00b > > deserved to be flamed. It's not that people will ask a newbie > > to RTFM or Google for queries which have straightforward > > answers _BUT_ people do ask the newbie to show some attempt to > > solve his/her problem. I mean it doesn't take a genius to just > > stick in - kppp configuration linux - keywords to find > > thousands, if not millions of articles, on the subject! > > > > > Look at it this way. Say some person asks a question to which > > > you know the answer. But you tell him to read the > > > documentation instead. The person should have read the > > > documentation first, true, but when he can find the answer > > > much easily, why should he be made to go the long way? In a > > > way, doesn't this list act as a source of documentation? I > > > mean, answer the question if you can and also point him to > > > the documentation for future reference. If after that he > > > still
what is the relevance of the above to your post - why cant you trim it -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
