On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 5:31 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
help develop community - unless, of course you offer a reward to the list that gives you the best discussion ...
Wont the community at large benefit from the benefit of its members? I mean wont FOSS benefit from my benefit or yours?
i ask a question on 4 lists. list a gives me one part of the answer, list b gives me another part. I am happy. on list c a guy does a lot of research and gives me a better solution. I am happier. I integrate all the input and benefit from it. But lists a, b and c all have incomplete answers - so no one benefits except me. Unless i post the final solution on all lists. How does the community grow? This also applies to ppl who post a problem, get the solution from the list, but never report the results. I personally would never reply to a cross post - because i feel that it is a selfish post and antisocial