Hello, On Dec 21 16:59 Brian K. White wrote (shortened):
... if the question is good ... then someone may write a time consuming and thorough answer for free, because they are not really answering you ... but writing something that can be googled up and referred to by anyone else with the same question later.
Another reason is that the responder is interested in the particular issue to learn whether or not his advice really solves the issue so that next time when a similar issue pops up he has already some knowledge about it.
If you get an answer "read the menual" it's generally because the answer has already been written, far better and more thoroughly and correctly than any off the cuff quick reply. It's offensive and selfish and ignorant to expect someone who has spent a lot of time learning things, to sit there and hand write out the same answer that already has been written.
If the answer is a bare "read the manual" without any useful pointer to the right specific manual for the particular case, either the answer itself is offensive and selfish and ignorant, or the answer is meant as some kind of "final warning" before an offensive and selfish and ignorant questioner will be completely ignored. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org