On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 04:54:26PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/21/2012 4:16 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: > > On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people should > >> be self reliant. Only when they search and can't find an answer should > >> they ask on a mailing list. Especially in this case, when the answer is > >> so damn easy to find, literally clicking one link on the Debian home > >> page and reading the subsequent page. > > > > I wholly disagree. First, when someone lowers himself to ask a question in > > a > > public forum, it is usually because she has been unable to find the answer > > That's how it's supposed to work, but rarely does. Most people these > days go straight for the mailing list hoping to save themselves the > time/effort of doing research.
+1 Especially when people are so very willing to do their Internet searches for them. > There will likely be dozens more replies to this thread with the > Lilliputians gang tackling me for being a "bully". I guess forcefully > presenting facts is now classified as "bullying" in 2012. There's a big difference. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120925114406.GH8247@tal
