Please stop posting like this. The postings referring elsewhare are becoming trolling, unfortunately, due to their excessive nature. Isn't building community helping others? Excessive policing of others can really be a turn-off. Orienting to the community should be a positive experience. Because someone asks a question in a different list than is intended, should we not help at all? Hardly. Here is an analogy. If you are in a department store, and you have a question, you ask the nearest worker. They could be a cashier, someone in jewelry, men's clothing, sporting goods, etc. If they are excessively busy, they will try to point you in the general direction of your question. However, more often than not, if they have good skills, they will often help. with the added caveat of *also* directing the customer to the correct place *for the future.* While I do believe houghi is trying to be helpful, it appears to me that it's starting to go a bit too far. Without helpful nature, the "RTFM syndrome" takes over and becomes a place for elitists. Responding *privately* to someone's thread in this manner (below) might be more appropriate rather than chastising people in public every single time. I write this in public to help further discussion of this. People do not use SUSE in order to be constantly chastized. They come to enjoy themselves and utilize the mailing lists as a way to learn more, utilize them as tools, and try to better their computing experience. Didactic and preachy posts that come one or two a day in an identical fashion such as the one below can often drive others out rather than help bring people into the fold. This is just my 2¢, but I count 15 of these specific identical messages recently. RP P.S. Yes, I prefer top-posting, as I read top to bottom in English, regardless of the locale.\ houghi wrote:
<snip> Do not take this as a flame. It is intend to get you the best support for now and in the future.
openSUSE is the comunity and SUSE is the distribution. This means that this openSUSE mailinglist is about the community. The mailinglist for technical help is on *suse-linux-e* Just subscribe via this email address: suse-linux-e-subscribe@suse.com, post your original email again there, and you will get a straight answer.
From http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#SUSE_Linux_Mailing_Lists : # opensuse for general discussion about the openSUSE (development) project. # For general questions related to released SUSE Linux versions # (eg. 9.3, 10.0) please use suse-linux-e
Please take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate to see wich list is exactly for what purpose.
Again, this is not a flame. This is intended to bring you to the correct place so you will get better help _and_ to keep this list free from unwanted treads.
Thanks and I hope you will soon find a solution.
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