On Jun 22, 2004, Jonathan Rawle <jr36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, I do wish people would stop replying to messages telling people to > search the archive rather than answering questions. In the time you've > written than, you could in many cases answer the question, and you're > generating just as many messages to the groups with the negative reply. If > you don't want to answer, write nothing. Most often you remember the answer is in the archives, but don't have a pointer handy. Are you suggesting I should have to do more effort to find the exact location of the answer, instead of just letting the person know where it is? I.e., give them the fish instead of teaching them to fish? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
