On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Chris Wadge wrote:
Well, you have my apologies, for whatever that's worth. I hate seeing
exchanges like this. In the time it takes to tell somebody to "Google it",
one could have simply replied with the correct answer. It's also worth noting
that while search engines sometimes seem magical, they're simply indexing
lots of possible answers -- some correct, some not. This mailing list and
others do get archived and indexed eventually, so adding correct answers to
the mix will only improve Google's signal to noise ratio in the long run.
The ironic part is that sometimes I am unable to Google an answer to my
questions because the first 3 pages of search results are all threads
where someone asks my question, 10 people say just google it, and
nobody actually answers.
G'day,
sjames
If anybody'd like to flame me for this email, that's fine. All I ask is that
you do so to my personal email address and not to the list.
Best regards,
-Chris
On 12/13/2010 05:12 PM, Ash Narayanan wrote:
Wow, what has this thread turned into!?
It started off as a simple question that could have been answered with one
of two possible replies, namely, the solution itself or a suggestion to
move this query to a more appropriate mailing list. Thank you to all of you
whose replies fell in either of these two categories.
To the rest of you....what is wrong with you?
If you don't want to help, don't. Stop wasting time. Did it ever ocur to
you that not everyone out there likes using a search engine? I was directed
to debian-security by an ex-colleague since one of our servers uses debian.
So I used it to ask a question that wasn't exactly related to security
(although if you must know, it stemmed from another discussion on
debian-security that did relate to security and one of my concerns was the
version number of my system). So what? The responses I've received from you
make me feel like I've committed a crime against humanity!
Can you imagine stepping in to a pet store with a question about your pets
symptoms to be abused by the store attendant for not going to a vet
instead?
Ash
PS: I've solved my problem. Thanks to those that actually helped.
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