Please stop posting like this. The postings referring elsewhare are
becoming trolling, unfortunately, due to their excessive nature.
Isn't building community helping others? Excessive policing of others
can really be a turn-off.
Orienting to the community should be a positive experience. Because
someone asks a question in a different list than is intended, should we
not help at all? Hardly.
Here is an analogy. If you are in a department store, and you have a
question, you ask the nearest worker. They could be a cashier, someone
in jewelry, men's clothing, sporting goods, etc. If they are
excessively busy, they will try to point you in the general direction of
your question.
However, more often than not, if they have good skills, they will often
help. with the added caveat of *also* directing the customer to the
correct place *for the future.*
While I do believe houghi is trying to be helpful, it appears to me that
it's starting to go a bit too far. Without helpful nature, the "RTFM
syndrome" takes over and becomes a place for elitists. Responding
*privately* to someone's thread in this manner (below) might be more
appropriate rather than chastising people in public every single time.
I write this in public to help further discussion of this. People do
not use SUSE in order to be constantly chastized. They come to enjoy
themselves and utilize the mailing lists as a way to learn more, utilize
them as tools, and try to better their computing experience. Didactic
and preachy posts that come one or two a day in an identical fashion
such as the one below can often drive others out rather than help bring
people into the fold.
This is just my 2ยข, but I count 15 of these specific identical messages
recently.
RP
P.S. Yes, I prefer top-posting, as I read top to bottom in English,
regardless of the locale.\
houghi wrote:
<snip>
Do not take this as a flame. It is intend to get you the best support
for now and in the future.
openSUSE is the comunity and SUSE is the distribution. This means that
this openSUSE mailinglist is about the community. The mailinglist for
technical help is on *suse-linux-e*
Just subscribe via this email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
post your original email again there, and you will get a straight answer.
From http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#SUSE_Linux_Mailing_Lists :
# opensuse for general discussion about the openSUSE (development) project.
# For general questions related to released SUSE Linux versions
# (eg. 9.3, 10.0) please use suse-linux-e
Please take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate to see wich list is
exactly for what purpose.
Again, this is not a flame. This is intended to bring you to the correct
place so you will get better help _and_ to keep this list free from
unwanted treads.
Thanks and I hope you will soon find a solution.
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