Hi, I agree that a lot of people don't make much effort to solve their own problem before posting; however, there are a few good reasons for it.
First of all, humans are social by nature; and, for most humans a mailing list or discussion group is first, and foremost, a social activity. Secondly, many of the solutions I find on the Web *before* posting are, in fact, postings started by such people along with the posted answer. Thirdly, much of the documentation on the Web is poorly written--if not incomprehensible. And, there is simply too little context for most documentation. Often, *simple* step-by-step instructions actually leave out critical steps. And, many people post poor descriptions of their problems; because, they don't understand the problem and, thus, do not know which information is germane. Having said that, I do wish people would *try* to find their solution before posting. Will Wagers C# Online.NET http://wiki.csharp-online.net/ http://blog.csharp-online.net/ http://forum.csharp-online.net/ -----Original Message----- From: Steve Ochani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 8:26 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org; Jay Subject: Re: The problem i have met On 31 Mar 2006 at 19:34, Jay wrote: > I am pretty new to tomcat. I recently read a post > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=114372017420869&w=2 > which solved a problem I have been having for tomcat 5.5 also. I > thank that person for posting the solution. I also read some of the > responses from what appear to be the tomcat developers and was very > dissappointed. I also think that is a usability problem for newbs. > like tomcat team wants tomcat to only be usable for advanced users to > me. This frankly dissapoints me. I disagree. I don't know too many software products and their developers that help out regularly on their support forums and e-mail lists. Personally speaking (writing), as a developer (not for tomcat) and systems admin I notice that most new people do not try to help themselves first. They don't bother to read any documentation/instructions or hardly any at all and they don't bother to use a search engine as google. On top of that a lot of these people, when they post questions, they do not contain enough clear information for other people to help them. -Steve O. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
