On Sunday 24 December 2006 12:40, Philip Tellis wrote: > I think he's alluding to questions that have already been answered > several times before. It just shows that the person asking the > question did not bother to do any research before asking. This is a > bad habit, and a bad trend for the lug, because it means that there > are people who expect others to do their work for them. > > Personally, I don't like people who believe that they are doing me a > favour by using linux, and think that it is now my duty to solve all > their problems. They can go back to using windows for all I care, > it's no loss for me.
Well this "problem" is not just faced by *this* LUG. Any discussion forum faces such "lazy" newbies. They either get RTFM or ignored. So this really isn't worth discussing. > It's already been asked and answered before. There is no need to ask > again. What you should be doing is searching the net, searching the > archives, coming up with a solution, and then write up the solution > into a complete howto (if one does not already exist) and publish > that. > > The last step, IMO, is the most important, and at least this list > isn't completely lacking in that area. So I guess the mp3s question was an example of "stale questions" :P -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
