On 7/20/2010 3:47 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/07/20 17:56 (GMT+0100) Bob Williams composed:
I'm still unclear which of forums or mailing lists produce more good answers compared to unhelpful ones.
In many moons of experience, I've found Google hits on forum URLs produce far more questions asked than good responses, and a frustrating number of questions with no responses at all.
+1.
Or worse, you find wrong answers. 37 how do I do X, and yeah I wanna know too, followed by one "OK I been trying to do this forever too and after 18 solid days of torture I finally got it..." (translate: I have no freaking slightest clue what the heck I'm actually doing thus I flopped around for 18 days....) and goes on to describe a bunch of flat out wrong things and has no idea that half of what they're saying is only true in the narrowest of coincidental circumstances that just happened to be true for them one time one day, and the other half of what they say basically breaks their system but they don't know it yet because they have no idea what they're doing and next week when they encounter the problems todays actions caused, they will have no idea that todays actions are the cause and won't come back to the thread and update it with the epilogue that says "uh actually don't do any of that stuff it was all wrong because I had no freaking slightest clue what I was doing..." -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org