On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 01:50  PM, Clay Loveless wrote:

> I'll make a note that the MySQL mailing list welcomes messages from 
> people
> shrieking "HELP!!!" even though they clearly haven't bothered to read 
> the
> manual, but offers little to those who've actually tried to resolve a
> problem on their own BEFORE wasting everyone else's time and bandwidth.

I reply to messages where I believe I can help the person, even if that 
means a "RTFM" reminder.  I don't reply to messages where I have no idea 
how to help the person, though you're correct -- this does not reassure 
them that their problem was heard.



Erik



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Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
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