On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 08:45, Leonard Burton wrote:
> >From pressing a few posters of RTFM answers in other projects' forums
> I have found out two things:
> 
> 1) most of them are script kiddies.
> 2) most of them do not know the answer.
> 
> They think it is more fun to post the RTFM than to not respond.

And on the flip side of the coin, some of us here on the PHP list have
been around so long that we've seen the same simple, it's in the FM
question rehashed over and over and over AND OVER again. When someone
brings it up again it just means that rather than use the manual,
archives, google, their brain, their own time, they want us to do their
work for them... and unlike weberdev we aren't getting paid to cater to
idiots.

If you carefully comb the archives you'll see that many of us that make
quite liberal use of RTFM also quite often give answers to the same
simple questions, and often quite recently.

I don't remember who's tagline it is... but here the "teach a man to
fish" pearl of wisdom applies -- even if sometimes you have to club him
over the head with it.

Cheers,
Rob.
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