Re: Stop neurotic posting

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:36, Chris Sherwood wrote: > > or what does it take to actually give a reasonable answer... if I am gonna > be rude I wont say anything... doesnt any one remember their mother telling > them if you dont have anything nice to say dont say anything at all? > That kind of thinking leads to things like Hitler :| If we never say anything then it becomes the norm for people to continue their behaviour. Currently the question being debated is what constitutes poor behaviour/etiquette within this mailing list. While I agree that this forum is primarily for answering questions -- I disagree that it is for answering silly little questions that would be common knowledge if the asker had bothered to read any tutorials or documentation -- most especially when it appears that the poster didn't even bother to do any kind of searching for themselves. I mean really, questions like "does X do Y" is often as simple as writing 1 to 5 lines of test code which is probably shorter than the email itself and doesn't pollute the mailing list with 5 to 10 replies of "yes" or "no". Cheers, Rob. -- .---------------------------------------------. | Worlds of Carnage - http://www.wocmud.org | :---------------------------------------------: | Come visit a world of myth and legend where | | fantastical creatures come to life and the | | stuff of nightmares grasp for your soul. | `---------------------------------------------'