On 16 July 2012 13:43, Nick Tailor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hahhahaha, google is not always your friend. It will give you like 10 > different answers for things. Sometimes it's easier and time efficient to > just tell them.
Agreed. In fact, I'd say it's /always/ more short-term time-efficient just to tell people an answer if you have it. But doing so doesn't lead to them learning anything more than that specific bit of information. I find the Varnish-misc mailing list to be rather clueful and, unlike the lists for certain other great bits of F/LOSS, there's usually a very low level of "solve my problem for me" requests. Read the nginx list for myriad examples of that pattern in action - it's pretty boring to be around. I'm not criticising you for providing the answer in the way you did - I just personally have a low tolerance for list noise that doesn't do anything more than advance the state of someone's knowledge purely linearly. Training people to use the search (http://google.com) and documentation (https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/) tools already at their disposal is always a good thing, IMHO. Even if it's actually "easier" just to serve the answer up on a plate instead :-) Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews Oxford, London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
