On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:19:57PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > These seems to be coming up about once a day on the list, isn't *anyone* > > > > searching the archives or at least googling? > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:56PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > > Perhaps the default is set too low, and many people are seeing this > > > problem for the first time? > > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That's an interesting argument: if the problem is widespread people > > shouldn't have to do their homework? Seems like the more widespread a > > problem is, the better life on the list would be iff people did their > > homework _first_. > > Actually, I didn't make an argument, just a "perhaps". > > If I had made an argument, it would have gone something like this: > > Some people are befuddled by anything new or strange. > Rob noticed an increase in questions about this problem. > So, maybe more people are stumbling over it lately.
/me mumbles something about pedantry ... > Most clue-full, clever Debian users will search the list (like I did) > and find the answer for themselves. But, there are always going to be > some people who can't figure it out. If there are enough of them, the > problem may become annoying. > > In that case, several possible solutions come to mind: > > 1) Insult these stupid people, hoping that they will abandon Debian > and leave us all alone. I don't see this happen often. Then again, I don't think a response of "search the archive" (or STFW) is rude. Having been on the internet for a while, I have thick skin. Many don't :-) > 2) Gently teach them how better to solve problems, knowing that > tomorrow there will be hundreds more who have not yet learned these > valuable lessons. I thought that's what we were trying to do. > 3) Change the default to a more reasonable value so the issue > doesn't come up so often. I hate to be Mr. Obvious, but "changing the default" does _no good_ for stable, and stable is, uh, stable for a long time in debian :-) Stable gets security updates, and that's about it. > You decide... ;-) Cool! I am the benevolent dictator! Regards, -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary arithmetic and those that can't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
