At 5:04 AM +0800 1/1/05, Craig Ringer in WAMUG digest 520 wrote:
I'm not sure its worth having a bunch of people reply on-list to say "I'd love to help, but I don't know", though.
Seconded. There are many tech mailing lists - I subscribe to a few in my own field - which are spoiled by having this unnecessary and unhelpful kind of response to every question.
In a businesslike technical help list like this, no response is a polite response and it leaves the archives nice and clean for a fruitful search.
And my thanks also for the pointed and helpful advice which list members have taken the time to give to my own newbie questions.
Nancy M, who thinks that those who offer 'just my 2c worth' are generally overvaluing the currency.
