On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
On 03/30/2013 08:09 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> In my world, those of political science and law, research is done in
> books or online reports where we know what to look for, and we have a
> pretty good knowledge of what the cases are that we're making; plus, we
> have librarians ready and willing to help find information. Excuse my
> ignorance, but I neither knew, nor heard anyone suggest, that I had to
> go grab information and insight from some webpage, the existence of
> which most contributors, at least in my place, are clueless of.
>
So what you're saying is, it never would have occurred to you to go to the
distro's website and see what the people putting it out have to say about
it, before using it?
How would I know to look for something that I would not be sure I had an
interest in, let alone know exists?