Re: Netbilling PHP Script

On Thursday 29 May 2003 21:49, Mike Morton wrote: > I have to get this off my chest, and I tried to send it directly to Jason > off list, but the email bounces back. Why? Probably because he gets a lot > of these emails. Because I don't like spam. > Why do you bother to answer on the php list at all? 90% of the messages > from you are 'search google' Probably because 90% of the questions on the list can be answered by searching google? > if you do not have constructive info to > offer, why bother to answer at all. So constructive info would be for ME to search google and present the results neatly in my reply? Somehow I don't think so. > I am directing this to you because the > list does not need to see my crap about it, but it just makes me sick to > see you over and over putting people down who are just asking for help. Non-specific questions get non-specific answers. If the OP wanted a better answer the question asked should have been something like: I'm looking for a script to do blahblah, I searched on google/etc and found A, B and C. However I need features X, Y and Z. Because: 1) We know the OP has done some homework 2) We know which packages the OP has already looked at and thus would not recommend them 3) We know what specific features the OP would like and thus can make an informed recommendation > And no, 'search google' is not a good answer - at the best of times it is > tough to wade through all the crap that google spits at you, So a good answer would be for ME to search google and present the results neatly in my reply? Somehow I don't think so. > at the worst > of times, most people do not even know what to search for to narrow it > down! Well in this particular case "php netbilling" would have been a good start. Not exactly rocket science. > Never mind searching the list archive - half the time all I get back > is your emails saying 'search google'! Probably it's because a lot of people look to the list as a first resort instead of consulting the manual, the archives and google. Thus they keep asking the same questions over and over again. > Geeze, look what you have made me do, get pissed of and waste my time > flaming you. What a waste of our time. Well if you have nothing better to do then maybe you should search google try out all the links then present an executive summary for our friend the OP so that he can save himself some time. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------