On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:37:41 +0530, Viraj Paripatyadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > the following are the two replies to a mail under discussion. I > couldn't help saying something about the replies & so, here it is. > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:24:44 +0530, Kaustubh Gadkari > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Can anyone help me? (Dont try to act too smart and > > suggest like reading the (incomplete) documentation or > > taking help of some 'guru'.) I am an end user and care > > least abt all the technical stuff. > > What is wrong with asking you to do a bit of homework? You want to get things > working, then try and get it to work. None of here are here to spoon feed > you. >
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and http://www.lemis.com/questions.html *Read* it. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > It is agreeable that the original mail from A G was quite agressive. > But let me remind all, that his "anger" might have been sparked by > some previous replies to one of his mails regarding the distro he was > using. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > About the above reply today: If everyone could try & get things to > work, there was no need for LUGs all over the world. People come to > this mailing list becuse they need help with things that they are new > (or renew :-) )to. There is absolutely no reason why someone should > spark off a battle of words just because someone is less adept at some > things than them. Please avoid these mistakes, which create > unnecessary hard feelings in a community such as this. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reading is required because: Even if someone tells how to solve the problem, one should be able to understand the solution. If you can't understand the docs/links etc. you can ask specific question. If you read the above mentioned links, you will have better understanding about what I am trying to explain. > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:01:39 +0530, Vishal Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 04:43:42 +0100 (BST), A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anyone help me? (Dont try to act too smart and > > > suggest like reading the (incomplete) documentation or > > > taking help of some 'guru'.) I am an end user and care > > > least abt all the technical stuff. > > May I suggest something? I you are able to get thing working, can you write the *complete* documentation? BTW, has anyone heard calling Microsoft for support? LUG's are better. Any idea how much it costs for getting support from Microsoft within 2-3 days? And if you are ready to pay the LUG for the support you will definately get the problem solved the way you want. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > About this second reply: People don't need anyone telling them to go > to Windows instead of Linux. They do it by their own free will. I > believe that we are originally trying to start the flow the other way > round. With 94% of the world's PCs running Windows, I don't see how we > can afford to lose even a single user. > > I repeat, people come to the list to get some help learning something > that they're trying but don't have enough support to. And groups like > LUGs are here to help them and spread it further. It is simply not > proper for people like us to be anything less than patient & polite. > Spreading this new word needs help from people who know it & replies > like this are certainly not helping. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I help others because by sharing knowledge, I benefit more than others There is always something which I gain. And hence spending time to write this mail. :D > > Please stop doing these things and let us take it further, rather than > making progress more difficult. I believe that better sense will > prevail & hope that no one will take this as a personal assault. Plz. define and elaborate *these things*, *progress*. I hope you don't take this as personal assult :) Regards, Shantanoo --- Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. -- Henrik Tikkanen -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
