Sounds like we need an FAQ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "R Sánchez" <reven@xxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:59 AM Subject: Lousy answers [was: Re: Is mysql 4.x in future Redhat release] > Hi there list. > > I just felt something had to be said here. In the last few weeks I've seen a > lot of really lousy answers, the most of them with the Red Hat 10/Fedora > stuff, but there have been others. Every now and then someone new stops in > to the list and asks a question everybody else has already made. Of course > google'n before asking would reduce mail load on the list, but maybe a > newbie is stunned by 230000 results, most of them speaking of things he/her > doesn't really understand yet. Maybe it's easier to get a direct and simple > answer form someone who had/has the same problem and has already solved it. > > As far as I remember, it's not mandatory for someone to answer. So if you > don't have anything intelligent to say, just shut your mouth. I'm sure if we > check the list's stats, absurd answers talking about google, any other > search engine or references like "check a post from 1967 when this was > already...", might sum the same load than all the questions made twice. > > The point is: if talking (again) about a subject really annoys you, then > simply don't talk. You'll be more polite that way. Maybe your crappy answers > annoy the list even more that a repeated question annoys you. > > Regards, > > Reven > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Edward Croft" <ecroft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Red Hat List" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: Is mysql 4.x in future Redhat release? > > > | On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 02:01, Edward Dekkers wrote: > | > Wayne Betts wrote: > | > > | > > I'd like to know if Redhat has plans to incorporate mysql 4.x into a > | > > release sometime soon (instead of the current 3.x version). > | > > (I know that I can build/install mysql 4.0x myself if needed -- that's > | > > not my question.) > | > > > | > > Any info on redhat's adoption of mysql 4.x will be appreciated. > | > > > | > > Wayne > | > > | > So why ask here? With one exception I know of, nobody here works at > RedHat. > | > > | > Regards, > | > Ed. > | > > | Well, gee Ed, I think the fact that this is a Red Hat list and that maybe > just maybe, > | someone in a Red Hat list might just know something. Really! I love how > some people in > | this group spout off about netiquette and such. Don't top post, no html, > don't ask questions > | unless you have googled, alta vista'ed, yahooed, wrote the pope, gotten > | thirteen signatures and kissed someones arse. Just the other day, > | someone came back into the group and asked about RHL 10. He got jumped > | on and told that before he asked a question to go to the archives, > | google, etc. Sorry, I am not that rude... [trimmed] > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
