On Tuesday 22 February 2005 12:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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.
So are we then saying the reason people don't post to the list is not that they get bashed? > > 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. True. I think I recall a similar situation on this very list (can't quite remember exactly), someone had a problem with a router, switch and some VLANs at a university, or thereabout. We might have asked for the additional information, but perhaps if someone is willing to acquire that information and post it, perhaps it will encourage additional sense of responsibility when posting questions to the list. If the problem is going back to get the information (lack of sufficient technical knowledge, e.t.c.), then perhaps this isn't the list for said member; or is it? > > 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!! Most definitely. But what it's sounding like is there could be people who want to post, but don't know where to start wrt problem description. This says there could be numerous other reasons the list isn't "actively" busy. Mark. > > Noah. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
