Same happened to me when I joined the Fedora dlist and asked some
newbie question which I'm too ashamed to remember now :-)
Point is, the time it takes to reply with a "you're wasting my time"
could actually be used to give some help. If peeps are too busy why
bothering replying with nasty comments in the first place?!
Just my 2 cents...
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:37:08 -0700, Collins Richey
<crichey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Every list goes through this sort of thrashing:
1. There are some users who are too self-important to remember back
when they were once n00bs. From what I've heard, these are the bulk
of users on the Debian lists <grin>.
2. There are others who can provide the simple answer AND a gentle
reminder where the n00b might find the answer him/herself. What's the
old saying: "You ctch more flies with honey than with vinegar."
3. Then there is the group (actually, subcategory of 1) who never has
any time and can't be bothered to read anything other than
super-intellectual stuff and who fills the replies with "your're
wasting our time."
The most successful lists have a lot of users in category 2.
Enjoy,
--
Collins
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it was the start of a new Arab world.... The Berlin Wall has fallen.
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