On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 15:19, Dark Servant wrote: > I guess it may be poor manners to repost something unanswered on the > basis that if people had an answer they would reply in the first place.
It's certainly VERY poor manners to post something to the list that was written privately. > It irritates me that I seem to have posts that are frequently > unanswered (approximately 2/3 of my posts). I run into the same issue on other lists myself. It's frustrating, but there's little to be done about it. Mailing lists are, after all, just collections of other people with an interest in the topic - if they don't know, don't care, or can't be bothered that's just part of the deal. Frustrating when you have a question, but inevitable unless you're paying them for support. > I know other people have > unanswered problems also but it doesn't seem like this occurs at such a > high proportion for them. Perhaps it's because I can usually figure > out problems myself, therefor most of my problems are too complicated > for the people on this list. I suspect that's the issue I run into some of the time as well, though at other times I simply write excessively verbose posts nobody can be bothered reading ;-) > I also have another possible theory; I always try to provide as much > information as possible (one of the list guidelines), however with so > much information perhaps people can't be bothered reading through all > of it. Yep. One has to be careful to structure things so that the real issue is at the top, etc. -- Craig Ringer
