RE: [cobalt-users] have fun

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I think this mailing list has gone down the pan bigtime recently
> what with a
> bunch of pointless arguements from people more interested in
> bickering with
> one another rather than helping solve problems.  If you don't
> want to help,
> thats all well and good... but is there really any need to reply
> criticising
> a fellow RAQ owner because he or she couldn't find the answer in the
> archives?  I know I always hit the archives when I stumble across
> a problem
> and appreciate its not always that easy to find a related answer to a
> problem.  So when you've got nothing useful to say maybe staying silent
> would be more practical for all.
>

Maybe, before it needs to be pointed out that you should follow your own
advice, you should go to the archives and read the post I was first so
roundly criticized for:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-March/038108.html and
then, please, tell me how unhelpful it was. For your, and history's sake,
the flaming began, not by me, but with
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-March/038115.html one of
those familiar, "I can flame you but if you reply you're an ass" posts. Of
course, since I chose to defend myself instead of ignore the attack, I was
further at fault.

If the person making the original post had followed my advice and searched
the www.apache.org site or the list archives for the exact phrase I
provided, (ErrorDocument which will lead them directly to either
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#errordocument or
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-August/017970.html and
more), they would have found the information and learned what a valuable
resource www.apache.org is, and what can be found in the archives.

I won't further go into the biblical story of teaching a man to fish, etc.
--
Dan Kriwitsky