Quoting Srinivasan Krishnan skrishnan@primus.ca:
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 09:57, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, BIJU KRISHNAN assembled some asciibets to say:
I know its very irritating when people ask simple questions.....but
from my point of view we should encourage all types of questions
It isn't just irritating, it is an inefficient waste of resources.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and he will never go hungry.
Encourage the right questions. Don't encourage laziness (except when
it promotes reusability :).
I agree with the whole fishing adage, but that would mean ...U dont need to give a direct reply to a simple Q, but atleast point the guy in the right direction to get his ans...and not totally ignore it all together. After all he might not have the time or bandwidth to go run queries around the place and hence had to turn to this LUG as a last resort.
- Lawrence.