answer questions if it's considered trivial enough for the novice list to answer.
Curt Zirzow wrote:
* Thus wrote andu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
This is a very busy list, over 100 message in a quiet day and most people are helpful and decent, don't mind reading and learning. Unfortunately there are some who mostly post stuff like 'read the manual' and other shit like that. Stuffing e-mailboxes with such garbage day after day doesn't do anybody any good even if the manual is not being read as much as it should
Yes it is a busy list, I have 1000+ messages for 7 days worth.
I'm not sure the noisyness of the list is entirely on the ones that
are helping. There does seem to be a problem of people posting
questions that are plain as day in the manual, or have been
repeatedly answered here on the list (thus the joke, has it been 4
days already, being so funny :)
if more people would read the manual or know how to find commonly asked and solved quetions this list would probaly drop in 20% (very rough estimate) of posts. Getting that information to the people who arn't reading the manual is a difficult task, cause if they arn't reading the manual, why would they even bother with reading the information on how to find the answer.
Now noisyness from the 'helpers'... I have noticed at times that a question is answered the same way like 10 times by 10 different people; this I consider more noisy than a RTFM post.
be. Is it too difficult to not answer the post at all if you disagree with the content?
Now, I kinda wondered at first if I should not respond to this
cause it's rather in a disagreement tone :)
I think this shouldn't be considered a bad thing to do. If you find something you disagree with and have (legit) arguments, I would insist that the person reply to it. Of course this only helps if it was in a constructive manor, which I hope this reply was done.
Cheers,
Curt
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