At 08:16 AM 12-28-2002, Paul Scigliano wrote:
i think my question is legitimate. if it's not, then i guess i'll just delete the sqwebmail docs and ask the list for help every single time i have a question.Paul Theodoropoulos wrote:your response of course begs the question. why is it so few read the documentation before mailing a few hundred people asking basic installation questions?And these responses beg the question of why people feel like they are compelled to lecture the rest of the world? Just answer the question intelligently.
here's a question:
does sqwebmail work?
i look forward to your intelligent reply. no one word answers, please!
in any event, he asked "is there a way", to which the correct answer is "yes".And if you were a C/C++ program, then you would be correct. But since you are a human being and can make assumptions and deductions, you probably knew that he was asking how to do it. So what happened here is that someone asked a question and you decided to be a smart-ass.
true. i should have replied with two words instead of one: "see INSTALL".
yes, whenever i'm at parties, i'll reply to questions with "yes", and it just amazes people how much smarter i am then they are.ask a, uh, "specific" question, get a specific answer. or, read INSTALL and save us all this whole dreary conversation.
Or just answer the question and save us all the smarter-than-thou attitude.
then of course there's that whole issue of people replying to both the list, and the sender. another layer of annoyance.Two solutions for that:
1) Reply to the sender only and save us all this lecture. You could have just sent him email and saved us all this crap.
ahem. reread, my friend. i didn't start "this crap".
2) Get off the list.
no thank you!
again, reread the thread. the fact is, the person who asked the question in the first place figured it out himself. to which i say, bravo. it's just a shame he didn't exhaust the available resources before mailing the list.cheers,Try spreading some next time.
cheers!
Paul Theodoropoulos
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