> Agree, and maybe our list is too small for this kind of thing > - but that said, we need to encourage people to post without > fear of being ridiculed.
Personally, my view varies a bit. I've never actually seen people who deliberately ridicule someone simply for the sake of doing so. Having been on the receiving end of this kind of stuff about 5 years ago when I had just hit the scene, I realise that many times as a newbie, a lazy tendency tends to catch up with you whereby you expect that this guy on the list will give you step by step instructions on every little thing. Some it is useful for someone's growth to tell them to RTFM every once in a while. Such that by the time they come to ask a question, they have taken some definite trobleshooting steps, have some useful logs to show for it and thus make it more withwhile to help them. I am sure you find it easier to help someone who asks a routing question with some ascii diagrams, traceroute output, etc than someone who just says I have a cisco 3640 and I can't connect to the internet!! Noah. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
