Dang... I just read that whole reply, I have noooo life! --Manny
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: > I think a lot people do/have figured out things from scratch. I know I have > to on a regular basis troubleshoot a new problem or a one off problem that > needs to be addressed. In some of these situations there isn't any > documentation that can really help me fix the problem so I usually have to > pull from other knowledge to find a fix for it. In some cases I have people > to ask, but in those cases 99.9% of the time they are standing right next to > me or are on chat. > I'm not saying that this community shouldn't be used for finding help with > problems, but I do feel there a certain amount of leg work needs to be done > regardless of how much time you have. I look at it this way, and this isn't > in direct relation to anything Jeff did it is just a general feeling about > this stuff. If you send an email, and 30 people spend 2 minutes reading it, > 1 man hour was spent just in reading it. If that is something that could be > solved by a person spending even 15 minutes searching Google or whatever it > might be, then I feel people's time was wasted. Sure it wasn't a lot of > time, but say you add 5 replies that take a minute a piece and only 20 > people read those, that is another 100 man minutes spent on the problem. So > at that point 2.5 man hours have been spent on a problem that you could have > solved in less time. If it is that important to you, 2.5 hours of your own > time shouldn't be too much if you are willing to have 2.5 hours of other > people's time spent on your problem. > I especially feel this way about email, the topics we discuss on this list > are all public knowledge so they are available online. You don't need to > talk to anyone about them in most cases, but with the possible delay in > response that email brings, to me it makes even less sense to use a mailing > list. Jumping on IRC or chat with someone from the list would be a must > faster solution. If the topic was advanced and you needed to find someone > with specialized knowledge than that would certainly be a different story. > Sorry if this makes me sound like a jerk in anyway, I don't think myself or > anyone else on the list really has a problem helping, we just want people to > a respectable amount of time on their own problems. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
