I thought that the answer Paul T. gave was arrogant, and offered virtually no help. I also thought that by me pasting the portion of the documentation into an email reply to your question, this would be of help to you, and others who search archives.
I had no idea at the time I posted the response that it was in fact me that was out of line, I'll concede that the sarcastic comment wasn't necessary, but I was in total ignorance with regards to offering help with this and the other issues I offered help with.
I am of the opinion that a list is as good as the community that supports it, and in my opinion this list cannot be rated high, because it appears to be here to do little more than refer people to the documentation, or ignore questions that are covered elsewhere.
Of course there will be some more offense taken by some with regards to my opinions and thoughts expressed in this post, and I will probably be advised to leave the list, that I will do.
Terry...
Dan Norton wrote:
People, let's please be a little civilized here.
Like Paul, I am also one of those who gets annoyed at questions like mine and I apologize for my lapse in mailing list etiquette. However, unlike Paul, I usually ignore questions from people who haven't read the docs because it is a waste of time and resources to answer/attack them.
However, I was not the installer. I paid someone else to install this for us and asked them first how to change the attachment size. They were unable to provide an answer for me and suggested I try the mailing list.
Shortly after sending in the question, I was able to locate the documentation and the section that specified the options for attachment size while performing the install and forwarded it to the helpful people at Inter7 so they were also aware of it.
I assume this mailing list was put in place to help people, and not provide a forum for personal attacks.
If there is a FAQ or an archive, can we put a link to it on http://inter7.com/sqwebmail? That's where I looked and was unable to find it.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Theodoropoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 10:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [sqwebmail] Hard quotas on attachment size.
At 08:16 AM 12-28-2002, Paul Scigliano wrote:
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.
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.
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".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.
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.
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!cheers,Try spreading some next time.
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!
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