Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:50:17AM -0800, Paul Johnson said On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:37:19PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: Of course, just saying RTFM and SFTW when there's no FM or W hits to read is not OK, either. At least not without qualifying it with where one can find it on TFW or in

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:39:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to debain users. I think it is unfair to have a question answered with try google or some other variation of RTFM.

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:37:19PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: Of course, just saying RTFM and SFTW when there's no FM or W hits to read is not OK, either. At least not without qualifying it with where one can find it on TFW or in TFM. - -- .''`.

OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread xucaen
It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to debain users. I think it is unfair to have a question answered with try google or some other variation of RTFM. Am I to understand that instead of using the debian-user list that I should use a search engine? I was under the

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:39:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to debain users. I think it is unfair to have a question answered with try google or some other variation of RTFM. If the answer is in a readily available manual

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:39:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of RTFM. Am I to understand that instead of using the debian-user list that I should use a search engine? It's unclear from your rant what you are actually upset about. The answer to this question is no -- but google indexes

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to debain users. I think it is unfair to have a question answered with try google or some other variation of RTFM. Am I to understand that instead of using the debian-user list that I

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread Ken Gilmour
On 2004-02-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: However I will in the future assume that any problem I have is the same in all distros and I will do searches on the web first. I concede to RT proverbial FM even if that M is spread across all of the known Internet. Who knows? maybe I will never

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to debain users. It is not debian-user that is inhospitable, it are the other readers (or some of them). In many cases this has a reason, one being that they don't want to read

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:39:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to debain users. I think it is unfair to have a question answered with try google or some other variation of RTFM. Am I to understand that instead of using the

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 14:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However I will in the future assume that any problem I have is the same in all distros and I will do searches on the web first. An invaluable resource on the art of asking questions, despite the overblown hacker talk, is ESR's How To