This mailing list is great, you don't ever miss anything. No need for a board. The only thing I don't like about this list is the amount of flaming, patronising, nit-picking etc that goes on. Otherwise I look forward to reading thru the mails I get from this list. There appears to be many knowledgeable ppl contributing to this list but its a shame that these same ppl appear to be the ones doing all the flaming, patronising, nit-picking etc. My Opinion: Questions like 'how do I install/configure' are not really appropriate for this list as they really covered to great lengths in the readme files in the distributions. BUT - 'refer to the faq/wtfaq/readme' should be all that's needed as a reply, rather than a lengthy flame or put-down. There are questions that are sort of reasonable but the person should really be able to work out by themselves maybe! Can these questions be asked with the expectation of getting a reasonable answer? an example of this could be 'has anyone tried a particular patch? and had it patch worked without modification/manual patching? (I asked this question and got flamed) (btw I now know that patches don't always work although I haven't had any fail apart from the one I asked about, so wont be asking that sort of question again :) Then there's questions that I think the knowledgeable ppl on here want to see, questions like 'what is wrong with my code?' (hopefully containing the code in question). but as we are not all superhuman's or geneius's, who have been programming in C for decades, ppl sometimes ask for answers to what, to the superhuman, is a stupid question. A bit off the track but just wanted to add my 2 cents. regs sed -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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