Re: Lenny version info

[Steven James <pyro@linuxlabs.com>]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Chris Wadge wrote:

> Well, you have my apologies, for whatever that's worth. I hate seeing 
> exchanges like this. In the time it takes to tell somebody to "Google it", 
> one could have simply replied with the correct answer. It's also worth noting 
> that while search engines sometimes seem magical, they're simply indexing 
> lots of possible answers -- some correct, some not. This mailing list and 
> others do get archived and indexed eventually, so adding correct answers to 
> the mix will only improve Google's signal to noise ratio in the long run.

The ironic part is that sometimes I am unable to Google an answer to my 
questions because the first 3 pages of search results are all threads 
where someone asks my question, 10 people say just google it, and 
nobody actually answers.

G'day,
sjames

> If anybody'd like to flame me for this email, that's fine. All I ask is that 
> you do so to my personal email address and not to the list.
>
> Best regards,
> -Chris
>
> On 12/13/2010 05:12 PM, Ash Narayanan wrote:
> > Wow, what has this thread turned into!?
> >
> > It started off as a simple question that could have been answered with one 
> > of two possible replies, namely, the solution itself or a suggestion to 
> > move this query to a more appropriate mailing list. Thank you to all of you 
> > whose replies fell in either of these two categories.
> >
> > To the rest of you....what is wrong with you?
> > If you don't want to help, don't. Stop wasting time. Did it ever ocur to 
> > you that not everyone out there likes using a search engine? I was directed 
> > to debian-security by an ex-colleague since one of our servers uses debian. 
> > So I used it to ask a question that wasn't exactly related to security 
> > (although if you must know, it stemmed from another discussion on 
> > debian-security that did relate to security and one of my concerns was the 
> > version number of my system). So what? The responses I've received from you 
> > make me feel like I've committed a crime against humanity!
> >
> > Can you imagine stepping in to a pet store with a question about your pets 
> > symptoms to be abused by the store attendant for not going to a vet 
> > instead?
> >
> >
> > Ash
> >
> > PS: I've solved my problem. Thanks to those that actually helped.
>
>
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