My reading is that no one is suggesting that<br>
people not try doing as much as they can first.<br>
If you need that much upfront instruction, there<br>
are many fine schools in the area offering <br>
Linux courses - this group gets hit every now<br>
and then with someone trying to get a homework<br>
problem done on the cheap. Others of us spent<br>
a lot of time in college trying to get that up front<br>
training that would qualify us to ask (hopefully)<br>
good questions from others. And of course good<br>
questions are valuable - good answers represent<br>
things that are already known, and can be looked<br>
up, albeit not always easily.<br>
<br>
I suggest the issue has a lot to do with judgement,<br>
and that is mostly no better than most other things<br>
in life. Most people stay within reasonable <br>
guidelines. A few never will. But at bottom, I'd rather<br>
see people error a little on the side of asking too<br>
soon that giving up on Linux because they can't <br>
get going. It's a judgement call on the part of all<br>
involved, and given that people are free to ignore<br>
e-mails, do so if you're bothered. For those that<br>
get pleasure from just moving the world along, this<br>
group is also an opportunity. And who hasn't learned<br>
something at some point during the process of <br>
helping others?<br>
<br>
-Bob<br>
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On 5/12/06, Brad Becker <<a href="mailto:investmgmt@s91195370.onlinehome.us">investmgmt@s91195370.onlinehome.us</a>> wrote:<br>> On Friday 12 May 2006 10:01, Bob Kline wrote:<br>><br>> > I'd really rather see people just delete what they
<br>> > don't like and move on.<br>><br>> Agreed, and I'll add that if you aren't looking to *offer* help for questions<br>> (no matter how easy), don't bother posting either. I personally have no<br>> patience for the RTFM crowd who go out of their way to rain on the parade and
<br>> assume every answer is easily fathomable in google.<br><br>I'm all for being helpfull... But as Ron has said, you can only be<br>_so_ helpfull to some people. In the end, Linux and all the<br>surrounding software, and the worldwide interweb that connects it all
<br>is a complex beast, and folks who want to jump into the gory details<br>_should_ do a significant amount of learning beforehand.<br><br>As one guy on the web put it, you can't treat a tricycle like a<br>stealth bomber. One takes a lot more knowledge / experience / etc. to
<br>operate effectively. Nor can you weld the interface of the tricycle<br>to the stealth bomber while retaining all the features that make it a<br>stealth bomber.<br><br>--tim<br>_______________________________________________
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