Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Thursday, August 08, 2019 04:50:31 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> deloptes (12019-08-08):
> > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server:
> <snip>
> 
> I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency
> to fall in two categories:
> 
> - those who try to understand what the original poster says in order to
>   reply in the most helpful manner ;
> 
> - those who try to understand what the original poster says in order to
>   find imprecisions and then forcefully educate them.

Interesting, I think there are a few more categories (and this is incomplete 
in a number of ways):

   * those that try to educate themselves by reading, and sometimes asking 
questions to clarify their own understanding

   * those that lose sight of the OPs question / problem and diverge from that 
topic, especially without making an appropriate change to the Subject line.

   * hmm, there are some others, I have to think about how to phrase them -- 
sometimes (among others) threads drag on for a long time (i.e., lots of posts) 
for various reasons, among them:

      * <well, I have to think about it (did I say that) -- I may try to add 
more categories later ;-)