Well said. I have brought this up before in a mini rant of my own. I have
no gotten to the point that if a question is in the manual, I'm not going to
post a reply, simply because I can not take time from my day to give out
information that is quoted almost verbatim from (and linked to) the manual.
I also am getting tired of the off topic questions, issues about php, perl,
java..all of those belong on their respected lists. Just because your using
php to post data to mysql and your getting a php error, doesn't mean you
should go ask the mysql list.
Well, enough ranting, now how about some ideas to help fix the problem :)
Maybe if this list was moved from an open list to a moderated one we would
see a drop? Also, might it be possible to move the manual comments to
another list? :)
Eric Fitzgerald
Server Administrator
AMN Television Marketing
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tõnu Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: Please read the manual
> Maybe it is my depression and I see everything in black but .... please
> read manual before posting questions in this list. Manual covers at
> least 90% questions asked here. If manual does not cover them, we will
> put new chapters in it. This is all because what we do in this list can
> be called FREE support. As much I know, most of our developers are
> spending 2..4 hours per day just reading all related groups and
> answering questions "Error 2002: Can't connect via socket
> /tmp/mysql.sock".
>
> Also I wanted to ask everyone who gets revenue from MySQL still buy
> support contract. While MySQL is free to users there are people behind
> it who eat, buy books, pay for internet connection get hardware and buy
> icecream to kids. This is not about home users. There are companies on
> NASDAQ who use heavily different open source software for their success
> and have never paid a penny. For that money you get guaranteed answers.
>
> MySQL is free, support in this list is partially free but do not abuse
> it, then it can stay free in future.
>
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