RE: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...
Kent, I belong to about 10 other mailing lists. Various car clubs, sport
tuners, cultural association, etc. I have never had my head torn off this
bad for a marginally off-topic post. It's not like I posted here to ask how
to troubleshoot the MAS to ECU link on my Mitsubishi 3000GT...
Granted, the question was pretty basic, but given the verbiage in the manual
"install another copy of httpd", I hope that others can see why it was
confusing.
Being ignored is one thing. Seeing reply posts saying something to the
effect of, "Your post does not meet the guidelines, please do not post
off-topic" would be fine too. But getting smart-ass comments with cheap
shots at my title, etc. is ridiculous. What's more shocking is seeing people
here defend those actions.
I will make a point to post on-topic from now on...
Tyson Varosyan
Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC.
tyson@up-times.com
www.up-times.com
206-715-TECH (8324)
UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime
-----Original Message-----
From: Kent West [mailto:westk@acu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:39 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...
Tyson Varosyan wrote:
>Again, I apologize for posting a Windows-based problem on this board, but I
>did so with the assumption that there would be many Apache users here and
>that the more experienced ones may know how to help me in Windows and
Linux.
>
>
>I reinforced my belief in the
>reasons why most people use software that has documentation and phone
>numbers to call for help.
>
>
Just to make it clear, your problem is with Apache and Windows, not with
Debian.
(Although I agree with you that the responses you got were offensive,
even if they were "technically" appropriate.)
(And I personally don't have an issue with the rare off-topic post on
this list if there's a good chance that this list can provide the
answer. Unfortunately, in your case, this list apparently could not
provide the answer, and the response you should have gotten is silence
or a polite redirection rather than the rudeness you received. (I now
expect to get flamed, but that's okay; it happens.))
--
Kent
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