Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1897 mails)

[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:39:17 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:

> 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.

That's going to be true wherever you look on the 'net, though.

Part of the challenge is having a good problem description; a second 
piece is having a good solution provided.  Then it comes down to the 
searcher's ability to equate the situation reported in the venue (whether 
it be forums, MLs, etc) to what they're experiencing.  Often times a 
problem can be described in similar terms but have a completely different 
underlying problem.

You may well see this more frequently in forums where there are 50,000 
members than in other venues where there are probably fewer people 
contributing.

Jim
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