Gervase Markham wrote:
> > Not really. The best policy is to be consistent, at the moment it
> > isn't. Some NS6 questions get answered, some don't, the difference between
> > them is puzzling. Either no NS6 get answered or they all do. Preferably,
> > none of them because this isn't the right forum for them.
>
> Indeed. Gerbil was doing great work on pointing people somewhere else, but
> the luser-generated stress seems to have got to him recently ;-)
>
> The thing is, people who answer NS6 questions think they are being
> "helpful", but they aren't, really. After all, "you can't give them what
> they want - it only encourages them" ;-)
Compare these situations:
A. Question: Does anybody know how to make Mozilla do xyz?
Answer: Mozilla currently can't do that. See bug ...
B. Question: Does anybody know how to make Netscape6 do xyz?
Answer: Wrong newsgroup. Please use ...netscape6...
Is this really what you propose?
Andreas
