Re: OT: google or debian-user?
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:39:29PM -0400, xucaen@access-4-free.com
wrote:
>
> It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to
> debain users. I think it is unfair to have a question answered with
> "try google" or some other variation of RTFM.
If the answer is in a readily available manual or has already been asked
numerous times and archived, should these not be used?
> Am I to understand that instead of using the debian-user list that I
> should use a search engine?
IMO, yes. You should first try to answer the question yourself.
> I was under the impression that the debian-user list was a forum for
> debian users. I always search the debain-user archives before asking a
> question and if I don't find an answer then I ask my question.
That's a good first step.
> Generally I do not do google searches unless I am seaking global
> information such as "is my hardware supported under linux".
You'd be suprised what google can turn up. Your question may not have
been asked on the list, but may be documented somewhere else and google
may just find it.
> However I will in the future assume that any problem I have is the
> same in all distros and I will do searches on the web first. I concede
> to RT proverbial FM even if that M is spread across all of the known
> Internet. Who knows? maybe I will never again need to post a message
> to the debain user list. One can only hope...
That's a very good idea.
--
Jamin W. Collins
To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying it's best night
and day to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle any
human being will fight. -- E.E. Cummings
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