-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 March 2008 03:37:41 am Dotan Cohen wrote: > The high horse of which you speak is very common in *nix-related > fields, wine included. In fact, I often find that the wine list is > rather forgiving in the sense. I recently posted a dupe bug, and > didn't get my head bitten off like I expected when I discovered that > it was a dupe. Also, I recently asked a RTFM question, and got a good > answer. Of course, I mentioned how I has STFW and could not find the > answer beforehand. A bare _minimum_ of user self-sufficiency should be > encouraged. Exactly. ESR's essay on asking smart questions and the applicable man pages ought to be mandatory minimum reading for any mailing list. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > You should see the garbage that gets asked on the OOo > list. It only happens because the mods tolarate it. This is a big reason why I'm massively against dumbing down the list to cater to people who can't be bothered to make an attempt at answering thier own question. - -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH3TlwUCxPKZafKh0RAnf9AJ4jDsLRl3kmkWjio7aUfazb3hzFJACgwn14 tA2zICTmrgVN/enq18hAbEE= =vZcz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
