On Tuesday 04 April 2006 2:28 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > I fail to see how pointing out a post was offtopic is mean. Rather, it > will save that individual (and hopefully others) from making the same > mistake in the future.
Then refer the poster to the correct place to send such inquiries. That is the logical way to deal with OT messages. You failed to do this, and instead offered a derrogatory message contributing absolutely nothing positive. > > Also, RTFM is absolutely the right answer more often than not. > Otherwise, what is the point of having TFM in the first place? The > amusement of those who spent a lot of time and effort writing it? > > -Steve TFM exists to be read, yes, but not everyone reads TFM. You are a developer. That's great, I'm sure you can do a lot of things with Gentoo that I'd be completely dumbfounded about, being myself not a developer. If we're going to say that Gentoo is a valid and worthwhile operating system, we need to support that idea by maintaining our image as a group of people, both users and developers. The Gentoo philosophy of continual growth and improvement doesn't just apply to software. It applies to everyone on this list, how they conduct themselves, how they behave. I suggest patching your question-answering skills in light of this bug. :) Kari Hazzard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
