In response to the OP's subject question: Reasons why one question gets a response and others do not: 1. No one that has read the question knows the answer. (Maybe waiting a little longer will allow someone to read your question that knows the answer. It's not like everyone subscribed to the list reads every question as soon as it is posted, if ever.) 2. The question asked does not contain enough information to figure out the problem. (A question should contain the following: A good subject, brief description of what the OP is trying to do, the expected behavior, and the observed behavior, copies of error messages or relevant portions of log files. Include version information so we can tell if we have similar systems, OS versions, application versions.) 3. The mailing list is not an official support system with operators standing by, it is a group of users sharing information. Those that answer posts do so out of their own generosity and willingness to share. They are not required to do so. 4. A particular question may have been asked many many times and those that respond may not feel inclined to respond yet again to the same question. Answers to such questions can generally, not always, be found using one of several search methods, a few that have been suggested in this thread. 5. Many feel it is better to teach people how to fish instead of just giving them a fish. By teaching people how to find solutions instead of just "getting the answer" those people become a little more self sufficient. It amazes me sometimes when it is obvious that the poster had not done any trouble shooting at all and apparently does not know how to even start trouble shooting the problem. By directing the poster to resources that help them learn to break the problem down and solve each piece they will be better for it. (I suspect that this results in some of the RTFM responses that some receive.) 6. Alexander Dalloz is busy at the moment or finds your questions uninteresting. (Just kidding Alexander :-) ) 7. Some of the more knowledgeable users do not respond to questions that don't follow list etiquette. 8. This mailing list has a huge volume, some questions will just get lost in the volume since the one person that knows the answer might miss reading it. This is particularly true of problems that are not common to large numbers of users. And having lots of people respond that they don't know the answer does nothing to help but increase the volume of traffic. 9. It is obvious the poster had not done any research at all, when others can google the posted error message and come up with relevant responses in the first page it does not make sense for users to use the mailing list as a remote control google tool. 10. It looks like the poster is trying to get others to do their homework for them. :)
