jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Aioanei Rares<debian.dev.l...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> If you try some Google search for, say, "dvd playback Debian", I'm sure your >> problem will be solved in minutes. Hint : debian-multimedia. > > i thought that is the point of a mailing list. ask other people how > they have fixed things.
It is. Most mailing list communities, however, tend to dislike answering the same questions repeatedly. Thus their archives are public, and posters are encouraged to search Google first. Thus, if your question has already been asked by someone else and answered sufficiently, the human and computer bandwidth of answering it again can be avoided. Common problems are also often documented in wikis and other web sites, which will also turn up in a search. The result of a Google answer and a human answer will likely be similar: a link to an existing resource. Except that the human answer took someone time to provide, and may be a re-creation of an already-existing resource. Thus the pushback against answering the same question again, and the suggestion to go look for existing answers. Most mailing list FAQs and question-asking guides explicitly state that posters should try to solve their problem with Google before posting to the list. - Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
