On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:53 -0600, Charles Howse wrote:
From: "Kam Leo" kam.leo@gmail.com
On 12/28/05, Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 19:58 -0800, Charles Heselton wrote:
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Charles Howse
*Most* people answer, if they know. Or point if they can. What I've found, is that at least 2 out of 3 times, when I go to google someone's problem, the answer is usually in the top 10 links found. For people that are particularly active on lists, this can be frustrating.
yes. This is very true. And bear in mind that perhaps as much/as less as 50% of people in this list actually do take the time to solve the issues for you. They're not support staff but they do it out of wanting to help.
The manner in this the question is asked is also pertinent to getting some answers. eg: They would have liked for the OP to at least have researched the question by themselves (no spoon feed) with a min of google (though of course the sequence/choice of search parameters will make/break the query) and perhaps some archive searching. (eg: like me, I have like 2 years worth of List archive which I consult before shooting an email to the list. That and the fact that I don't have I-net access at work, (only email ), so I make that clear as well.)
That's my 2 cents.
Much of this bashing would be alleviated if Red Hat, a publically held and for-profit company, put some real effort into incorporating a decent search engine for the archives.
Rumor has it that Google will search into the archives. Experience bears out the rumors. (People who can tolerate Bugzilla also cite using Google as a surrogate search engine for Bugzilla. That might make that horrid, ugly, annoying tool (I'm being kind) almost bearable, too.)
Would you please give an example of a Google search through this list's archives?
---- pardon the html...trying to keep long line together...
stick this in a google search
"rmdir when directory is not empty" site:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/
Craig