Totally agree. I've asked a couple questions I regretted asking once I got
a response saying "man xxx", but even that helped me by pointing me to the
correct man page.. was looking in the wrong place a lot of the time, or just
didn't understand how qmail functioned.. but I think I did a good job at
saying I had spent time trying to solve the problem on my own, and for one
reason or another, just couldn't find the answer.
Mailing list archives are -great-. That's usually the first place I go when
I'm stuck, because if I'm getting stuck, I bet someone got stuck just like
me, and likely asked for help on the list.. I'd much rather try to find the
answer there, save time, learn something about qmail in the process, and
patch it up myself rather than send an e-mail out, wait hours for a reply,
telling me to put line x in file y, which learned me nothing.
Chad
-----Original Message-----
From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 2:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Qmail Relay Question
Ted Deppner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 17 March 2000 at 11:01:10 -0800
> Be clear on this point: The informed person asking the tough question
gets
> _excellent_ support from this list.
I have to agree with this. I've even gotten excellent support on
*easy* questions; maybe I was just lucky with my timing, or maybe it's
that I managed to ask the question in such a way as to make people
understand I'd made a really solid try, and was just trapped in one of
those mental loops where you can't get out of the box to see the real
answer. Whatver the reason -- I consistently get excellent support
from this list when I need to ask questions. And if somebody gets a
bit sharp in a response, I just ignore it, and continue the technical
part of the conversation. Works for me.
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