20 Dec
2006
20 Dec
'06
11:55 p.m.
On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Chris M wrote:
Maybe there's other lists where you're likely
to find
your sensibilities less offended. But then again
you'll probably run into lots of unchecked posts like
this one. There's so much to check these days. It just
makes sense to just ask sometimes ;). It seems at
least you're in grudging agreement - you did take time
to answer. And thanks again.
No, there's nothing wrong with asking questions, nothing at all.
Sometimes you have to have a little knowledge about something before
you can effectively research it, and it can be hard to get up over
that first hump without a little push from somebody else (it happened
to me when I was learning about the AS/400, for example).
What bugs me is some of the useless or blatantly wrong "answers" that
appear from time to time. If you're giving information and you write
something like this contrived example: "I remember the Commodore 64
we had at school, back in 1979" it is not only careless, but
disruptive as well. Wikipedia suffers from this sort of thing also.
Still, it was an unnecessarily cranky thing to say on a public list,
and I apologize to the listmembers for it.
ok
bear