Amen and thanks for sending that! This list is indeed very self-righteous and religious. Your point regarding the archives is right on. They are almost worthless for finding serious resolutions to problems. I couldn't help seeing your signature. My family lives in Leicester and Asheville. I used to live in South Hominy Valley off of Glady Fork Rd. I was wondering if you know my old college mentor (UNC-Asheville) - Joe Daugherty? He's in computer science. Again, well said on your post. Mike Mike McMullen CIO - Baton, Inc. 7637 Fair Oaks Blvd Suite #2 Carmichael, CA 95608 Tel: 1-866-515-4421 or 916-944-7790 ext. 2 Fax: 1-866-843-8795 or 916-944-8422 Email: mlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: www.loanprocessing.net "From chaos comes true genius..." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lamar Owen" <lowen@xxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:41 PM Subject: Rude posts. > Ok, you know, it's a good thing to recommend people searching the archives. > But when half a dozen people jump down some poor chap's throat because he > asks a simple question (and hasn't searched the archives), things are getting > out of hand. So can everybody just chill a little? > > My questions to the list admin would be, is the welcome message that gets sent > out to every new subscriber a.) being sent and b.) telling people to search > the archives before asking a question? > > And those who recommend searching the archives, try searching them yourselves > on the topic before spouting off. You might be surprised at the overwhelming > volume. In particular, over three-quarters of the searches on 'MySQL' point > to messages that say 'Search the archives!' So your self-righteous net.cop > posting has just cheapened the value of your sacred archives. Why not be a > little patient, or actually answer the question in a patient manner, with a > gentle pointer to 'you know, the list has archives, which are available at > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/, and might have answers to other > questions you may have.' If you can't exercise that sort of patience, you > should just cancel your nastygram and go to the next message and save the > rest of us on the list you noisey-quette posting. You certainly don't need > to be posting anything with that attitude. > > This list has a bad enough s/n ratio without self-appointed net.cops. > -- > Lamar Owen > Director of Information Technology > Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute > 1 PARI Drive > Rosman, NC 28772 > (828)862-5554 > www.pari.edu > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
