Re: Homework

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> 
> * Nicolás Conde (nconde@fing.edu.uy) spake thusly:
> >    Hello.
> >    I don't mean to be rude with this, but i've noticed that few people
> > do their homework before posting. I've seen some questions over and over
> > again for which answers exist in the {manual pages | list archives}.
> >    Looking for existing answers (IOW doing your own research) before
> > posting helps everyone: you learn about your OS and your computer,
> > becoming a better {admin | user}; and also reduces the amount of
> > messages received by subscribers everyday.
> >    So, without wanting to ofend anyone, before you post a question
> >
> > 1. RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual)
> > 2. Search the {archives | HOW-TOs}
> > 3. Ask your local {Linux | Unix} guru (if you have one)
> >
> > and if this doesn't help (which I doubt) drop some lines to this list.
> >    Thanks all, enjoy Linux.
> 
> YOUR AN ELITIST BASTARD. IT IS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU LINUS WILL
> NEVER HAVE MARKET SHARE.

  linux already has market share.

  and IMO it's good to remind people that they should be active about
their quest (whatever their quest is). Note that it does not mean that
newbie questions are not welcome here, they are, it's just that
everybody is expected to do their part (obviously, the ones that don't
know they are expected to do their part or that do  not know how to do
their part yet would still post the questions without working on
solution first).

  considering the tremendous value of answers you see here I don't think
it's too much to ask people to think (or do some research) before they
post.

  should one worry before asking a question on debian-user? no. should
one be aware of what (s)he's doing? YES!

	erik