On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:58:16PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:51:13AM -0500, Dale A. Raby wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 08:35:25AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I really don't need to be told RTFM. I am 80 yrs old. > > > I forget things. > > [I think people should take note: this comment clearly suggests that > Paul, like many people, has had negative experiences asking relatively > simple questions on mailing lists like this one, if not this very one.]
Good point. > Asking on a mailing list, where someone (or many someones) almost > certainly knows the answer without looking it up, AND will reply to > you usually in less than 5 minutes, while you go make yourself a nice > cup of tea, is a much more productive and less frustrating way to > solve the problem, and should be encouraged, not discouraged. > Otherwise why are we here? But it's a two way street at least it should be. I gave the best answer I had since I also use Emacs with Mutt. But my answer wasn't acknowledged. I took the time to respond and I see my time wasn't appreciated. So now I'm very less likely to answer anything from this person in the future. It seems obvious to me it's proper to thank people who tried to help, whether you actually tried what they suggested or not. If you're 80 years old you grew up when things like manners and common courtesy were still admirable in all likelihood. Back to your subject, agreed RTFM posts aren't helpful. They only demonstrate the person posting the RTFM has more time than manners. In 95% of RTFM cases a helpful answer would take less effort and bandwidth than the rant that inevitably comes with their RTFM post! > Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 I'll have a large pepperoni to go! /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04
