30 Jan
2006
30 Jan
'06
2:34 p.m.
Sometime Today, NMK cobbled together some glyphs to say:
I had done that, thank you very much. If all problems were solved by RTFM, no one would subscribe to mailing lists.
It's been a very long time since I've had to ask a question on a mailing list. The answer is either in the docs already, or on some mailing list archives. You just have to be willing to spend 4-8 hours (or more) doing some research.
If you think that that's too much, consider this:
Time for you to research: 8 man hours
Time for you to write the mail: 5-10minutes Time for one list member to read the mail: 5minutes Time for all 1016 list members to read the mail: 83 man hours
What's more expensive?
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"You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs anymore." said Yo-less. "It's
speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons."
(Johnny and the Bomb)