Re: FAQ (was: Lousy answers)

2003-10-16 Thread Edward Croft
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:28, T. Ribbrock wrote: > > Yes, that's exactly my point. If I'm on a mailing list I've recently > joined (or that I don't follow closely) and if I have a question > (doesn't matter which topic), the *first* thing I do is to check whether > the list has an archive, then se

Re: FAQ (was: Lousy answers)

2003-10-16 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:11:43PM -0400, Edward Croft wrote > The point I was trying to make was that the incident that I initially > spoke out on was when a list member returned to the list, said just > that, and asked if there was any word on RH10. Now think about it for a > moment, he hasn't be

Re: FAQ (was: Lousy answers)

2003-10-15 Thread Edward Croft
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 04:15, T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:29:37AM +0200, Jim Herrick wrote: > > Sounds like we need an FAQ! > > The problem is, that - according to experience - those that are too > lazy to read the documentation or use Google/archives are too lazy to > read the

FAQ (was: Lousy answers)

2003-10-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:29:37AM +0200, Jim Herrick wrote: > Sounds like we need an FAQ! The problem is, that - according to experience - those that are too lazy to read the documentation or use Google/archives are too lazy to read the FAQ as well, so it won't help as much as desired... Nonethe

Re: Lousy answers

2003-10-15 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:59:23AM +0200, R Sánchez wrote: > I just felt something had to be said here. In the last few weeks I've seen a > lot of really lousy answers, the most of them with the Red Hat 10/Fedora > stuff, but there have been others. Every now and then someone new sto

Re: Lousy answers [was: Re: Is mysql 4.x in future Redhat release]

2003-10-15 Thread Jim Herrick
Sounds like we need an FAQ! - Original Message - From: "R Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:59 AM Subject: Lousy answers [was: Re: Is mysql 4.x in future Redhat release] > Hi there list. > > I jus

Lousy answers [was: Re: Is mysql 4.x in future Redhat release]

2003-10-14 Thread R Sánchez
Hi there list. I just felt something had to be said here. In the last few weeks I've seen a lot of really lousy answers, the most of them with the Red Hat 10/Fedora stuff, but there have been others. Every now and then someone new stops in to the list and asks a question everybody els