Re: FAQ

How many times are people going to complain about no-brainer questions being posted to the list. The fact of the matter is people are going to post things on the list without reading the manual or the FAQ. It goes with the territory. It annoys me too, but there is no good solution for the problem. There is the fact that a lot of people are new and don't really know where to go to find answers. Even if they go to the web site, they still may not know that they need to be looking for information on naming variables with variables or that fopen opens a file or whatever. K E I T H V A N C E Software Engineer n-Link Corporation On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, David Robley wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 03:34, Rick St Jean wrote: > > It is there a list of most frequently asked questions? > > It seems that people ask the same questions, again and again, > > they do not READ THE MANUAL. Yes I have asked 2 stupid > > questions, but I really did search and I am reading my manuals, > > the PHP and the book that I bought. > > Seems to me that a significant number of questions arise from people who > don't have any idea of the concepts behind 'programming', if I may > overload that term. 'How do I make a loop work' 'How can I print the > numbers 1 to 5'. > > > Also I would like to know if there would be a demand for an > > experienced mailing list? I am just frustrated by the same 3 > > questions that pop up about once a day. The rest of the posts > > are great. > > As has been noted before, there is little purpose in splitting the list > like that. If the 'newbies' all go to the 'inexperienced' list, from > whence do they gain wisdom? And then the 'newbies' learnn about the > 'experienced' list and go there and we're back to square one. :-) > > Check the archives for _extended_ discussion on that topic. > > > -- > David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin > RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | > http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ > AusEinet | l!$±|ƒÓZ > ËJ+?ihttp://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ > Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >