At 2001-01-07 09:52, cks wrote:
>It's always polite to check the archives first, before
>you post your question to the list, since there's a
>good chance your question has been asked before.
Agreed. And I actually searched the archive, but obviously
for the wrong keywords like "ip number" or something and
got a result that didn't answer my question. I apologize
for not being persistent enough in my search before posting
the question to the list.
BUT - what if every possible Q & A were to be found in the
archives? Then there would be zero traffic on the list, right?
Apart from sporadic newbies who haven't yet realized that
there's nothing to ask that hasn't been asked before...
What I'm getting at is that after monitoring this list for about
2000 postings, I've learnt A LOT just from reading the Q & A's
that has been posted by others than myself. I bet that I would
not have learnt so many things by randomly searching the
archives for keywords that I didn't even know exist...
Bottom line: My personal opinion is that "dumb" or "duplicate"
questions definitely serve a purpose. Perhaps not for the
experienced ones, but for newbies (as myself) and the
"common" programmers, seing others ask those questions
and in due time even try to answer them as well, is a great
way of developing ones personal skills.
However, fact remains, searching the archives IS a
good starting point. :)
Let's keep the traffic going, gentlemen (and ditto women)
Cheers
/Jon
PS. I do have a functional logging of IP addresses now in
my servlet...
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