On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:53 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jun 22, 2004, Jonathan Rawle <jr36(a)leicester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Also, I do wish people would stop replying to messages telling people to
> search the archive rather than answering questions. In the time you've
> written than, you could in many cases answer the question, and you're
> generating just as many messages to the groups with the negative reply. If
> you don't want to answer, write nothing.
Most often you remember the answer is in the archives, but don't have
a pointer handy. Are you suggesting I should have to do more effort
to find the exact location of the answer, instead of just letting the
person know where it is? I.e., give them the fish instead of teaching
them to fish?
Good point. Has anyone seen a good howto/tutorial on searching mail
archives, aside from various posts in the archive with bits/pieces? It
is a bit of an art, the redhat tool is brain-dead, gmane is marginally
better, and google is between tricky and drinking-from-a-firehose.
Phil