From: CityK <cityk@rogers.com>
To: Linux and Kernel Video <video4linux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Another very basic question...
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:40:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DC504C.2070908@rogers.com> (raw)
I'm going to be blunt about something -- you're not being particularly
helpful to yourself or the list:
- To yourself because you're not being very efficient.
- To the list because you're breeching etiquette.
Here are a few tips:
1 - instead of breaking threading, and opposed to having a zillion
different threads essentially all about the same things, keep your
content within one i.e. the original message ... having a contiguous
thread will also help those who may, in future, search the lists for
similar problems
2 - entitle your threads appropriately -- i.e. "another very basic
question ... " or "the final inch" are not very helpful .... the last
one in particular, given the thousand or so emails I receive each week
from China, Russia etc etc regarding viagra, penis enlargement etc etc
etc ... if your goal is to get/reach those who are most capable of
helping you, you're certainly going about it the wrong way ... (i) busy
people will browse over items that don't seem interesting or appear on
the surface to possibly be spam and (ii) please don't ambiguious
messages as it just ends up wasting others time in trying to figure out
what your question is/relates too (i.e. perfect example: Merc trying to
figure out what you were talking about in this thread)
3 - a number of the "basic questions" you have posed are readily
answered in the wikis ... so, in posting here about these elementary
issues, you've wasted your and my (and others) time too ...
- your time because you likely could have read about the solutions
quicker then you typed/enquired about them
- my and others time because we've already spent considerable time
trying to document such elementary questions in the wiki ... and my time
again in having to compose this message to draw light to this fact
4 - please don't top post
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-15 22:40 CityK [this message]
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2008-03-15 23:17 Another very basic question CityK
2008-03-14 16:32 r bartlett
2008-03-14 16:43 ` Markus Rechberger
2008-03-14 20:18 ` r bartlett
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