At Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2002 11:42
Volker Kuhlmann
[when I was critizing Ben Rosenberg] Can you take your personal problems offlist please? Thanks. Volker
And can you post under an address where personal responses are possible, Mr. Hidden Paradise? These are not my personal problems alone. The list is overflowing with request from people who are too lazy to look first for themselves. In the beginning of email-list and newsgroups it was very common to receiving some RTFM responses and IMO that did good and helped us to get the self-training through reading available material FIRST before posting. But nowadays our conditioned "politeness" tells us to answer everything and thus train lazy dogs to become even more lazy. Now even totally appropriate "have you *tried* google" criticism is criticized. As you do, as Ben did. And it was a complete google-link to click on plus the remark that the forth item will contain the wanted material - and I checked it, the 4th google reference is indead very valuable regarding the original question. 'Please' and 'thanks' are cheap to type into a keyboard. Learning is not that cheap. But of course somebody will certainly identify with poor lazy Ben if he is himself asking questions like "Is anyone able/willing to give a brief opinion about the level of security of bind 8 and 9? There must be a reason why SuSE ships both. If they're equally secure it would seem to be more sensible to go with the new version for new servers?" Was there anyone willing to give a <whatever>, Volker? Perhaps offlist to your "undeliverable" mail-box? Man, you made it... Michael -- Michael Zimmermann (http://vegaa.de)