Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/30/17:40:47
At 10:48 AM 9/30/2002 -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
>Finally, one of the advantages about a separate newsgroup is that people
>would feel more confortable asking a question. The cygwin mailing list
>tries very hard to have people not to ask questions (search the FAQs
>first, look for a better mailing list, etc). Even though I agree with this
>type of policy from an administrative point of view, I consider it to be a
>bad policy for cygwin users (the ones that run the stuff that some of you
>create), since real people are having a need for an answer and maybe
>directing a question like that towards the newsgroup would take some of
>the pressure off in sending the question to the list and getting a mean
>answer back (I got one for my first question, even though I did look at
>the archives and couldn't find anything).
A group that does all the work to answer anyone's question, no matter how
obvious the answer or easy to find it is elsewhere, no matter that it is
the hundredth time it has been asked that week? Yes, that sounds like a
wonderful thing...for the people who are asking the questions. But who's
going to do all that work? Where you are going to find these angels who
want to spend their free time explaining "What's bash" over and over and
over to people who are too lazy to even try Google?
On the other hand, if you are volunteering to *be* such a person, I'm sure
nobody here would try to stop you.
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