On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 08:57:03 -0500
Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:21:43PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> talking about a link to the individual message, which IIRC we never
> had in the old version either. I mean a static pointer to the
> Archives page or more usefully to the general list information
> page, which is what one would expect to see labelled as "users
> mailing list" rather than the mailto: link which is actually
> there.
Putting that in the standard list message footer seems reasonable.
I don't have a problem if you put the link to the archives a second time
prominently into some auto-generated list footer. Unnecessary as bad
weather, I believe, because are there really MUA's out there
nowadays, without the capability to display the mail-headers? But
again, I won't complain ..
But what I really would like to discuss here: Could we please have a
prominent display in the footer *and* in the mail archive entrance page
of a message that tells people to please use a damned search engine
before posting to this list?
Again and again I'm seeing seemingly extremely intelligent people
asking questions so stupid that sometimes I have to hold back myself
from answering: "no, it's kaput: pull the plug, find a girl-friend, and
never touch some machine again. Ever." - No, I won't do that, but
sometimes it's really hard to resist.
I mean: it's 2018, everyone uses search to find houses, cars, TV and
even friends on the Internets with their preferred search engine, but
no, when it comes to fix software we get free help without any effort
from the guys on the Fedora list who don't have a life and wait and
crave for bums and retards asking stupid questions.
What's going on? Are computer users just dumber today than, let's say,
10 or 15 years ago? Sometimes I think they're actually just more lazy.
But I really don't know.
What did I miss?
TIA, and Regards
--
Wolfgang Pfeiffer