In addition... We have reached the point where many on-line help messages are woefully out of date and not applicable to more modern UNIX/Linux/ etc. versions of Linux. If the help text that you find does not show which release it applies to, or does not have a date indicated, it should be viewed with much suspicion. It may do more harm than good.
Arv _._ On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 8:01 AM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez (12020-05-15): > > I wrote a lengthier reply to another of your messages in this thread, > > then deleted it without sending. > > > > However, you appear to still be hung up on something, though I cannot > > tell what it is. > > People who think they understood the question and give an irrelevant > answer are a bane for mutual help mailing-lists and forums. At best they > are a waste of time; at worst, they confuse users or prevent the actual > answer from being found. > > Have you never searched an issue on the web, found a thread in an Ubuntu > forum with the exact problem you have, and been disappointed to find a > dozen irrelevant answers, with only a superficial relation to the > question. > > I do not want the Debian mailing-lists to look more like Ubuntu forums. > > If you are not sure you understood the question precisely, just shut up. > Somebody else will probably give a more relevant answer. And if it does > not happen, you can still reply a few hours later. > > Let us not behave like schoolchildren. The first to answer will not get > an image. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George >
