On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 11:13:53AM -0700, Sac Geek wrote:
Take a hard close look at the lengthy mailing list and you'll see for yourself how others who may not even know anything about the terminologies, find same confusing.
Then please correct the terminologies that are confusing.
So then I ask, if you're really feeling so helpful, if you, (and or others) know the answer to the question that others pose, why not then go ahead and give it to them, and AFTER doing so, give them a kind pointer to what YOU consider to be the proper place to pose their questions.
Because that would not be an icentive to go and post in the correct place. Instead it is a reason to ignore the advice and ask more questions. <snip>
It's close to, if not comparable, to those "mightier than thou" individuals that answer a query telling others to "go look it up for themselves" as "they" had to do when they learned the operating system.
By no means do I wish to say to look it up themselves. I merely point out the correct place to find said information and where to ask others. It is like learning a man to fish instead of giving him a fiish. <snip>
"Do not take this as a flame" and I'm sure that you'll accept it in the same warm fuzzy manner that you expect others to do of your words.
No need to say it as I do not see it as a flame. If the toning of the standard mail is in any way offencive or makes it unclear to what I want to say, then I am sorry and would love to see a correction, without changing the fact that it points out that this is not the correct place to ask the question. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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