Re: Stop neurotic posting

* Thus wrote andu (php@archeopterix.com): > This is a very busy list, over 100 message in a quiet day and most people > are helpful and decent, don't mind reading and learning. Unfortunately > there are some who mostly post stuff like 'read the manual' and other shit > like that. Stuffing e-mailboxes with such garbage day after day doesn't do > anybody any good even if the manual is not being read as much as it should Yes it is a busy list, I have 1000+ messages for 7 days worth. I'm not sure the noisyness of the list is entirely on the ones that are helping. There does seem to be a problem of people posting questions that are plain as day in the manual, or have been repeatedly answered here on the list (thus the joke, has it been 4 days already, being so funny :) if more people would read the manual or know how to find commonly asked and solved quetions this list would probaly drop in 20% (very rough estimate) of posts. Getting that information to the people who arn't reading the manual is a difficult task, cause if they arn't reading the manual, why would they even bother with reading the information on how to find the answer. Now noisyness from the 'helpers'... I have noticed at times that a question is answered the same way like 10 times by 10 different people; this I consider more noisy than a RTFM post. > be. Is it too difficult to not answer the post at all if you disagree with > the content? Now, I kinda wondered at first if I should not respond to this cause it's rather in a disagreement tone :) I think this shouldn't be considered a bad thing to do. If you find something you disagree with and have (legit) arguments, I would insist that the person reply to it. Of course this only helps if it was in a constructive manor, which I hope this reply was done. Cheers, Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."