-----Original Message----- >From: Rodney Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Feb 11, 2007 4:25 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [users] Is it just me? (People asking for e-mail clients) > >Whining, as in, not taking the necessary time to scan the mail list or >archives for similar questions. > >If a person cannot take a few minutes to research, and ask a question >that has been asked more than twice, then yes, it is whining. > If you read the 'readme' and you were the average user, you would get the impression that [email protected] is a help desk, not a mailing list run by volunteers. Thus the problem is not the user, but the readme that directs users to submit problems. I have 'whined' about this and no changes yet...(and 2.2 is due soon and will add to the problem not subtract.)
>From windows users, linux users, and OS X users. I did not mean to pick >out Vista users in particular. "WE ALL" (all OS users) are guilty of >whining. Yes, we have all whined in the past. I actually submitted an OpenOffice.org problem to a different mailing list altogether (can you say Fedora anyone?) This is not indicative of a user problem but rather a problem with the readmes that the OpenSource community create. We have to remember that not everyone is a computer whiz and that most folks using computers these days have little than more knowledge about their computers than were is the on/off switch and how to set up their monitor so they can look at it. Gone are the days when it took a Bachelor's in Computer Science to use one. I for one would like to see a rewrite of the readme to make it more functional. James McKenzie -- >They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a >little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. > Ben Franklin - 1759 Agreed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
