Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt user chatroom????

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On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Marc Gear wrote:

> > Not quite the same situation as this list....But, considering that at the
> > beginning of the learning curve it's sometimes so hard to grasp something
> > that you need ask after it's just been answered....yes
> 
> I am no teacher, and I am not here to teach either. 

So, why are you here? To learn?

If you're not here to learn, then you may be wasting your time (g).

> 
> This isn't something that the second person didn't understand, this isn't
> something that they were confused about even after hearing an explanation.
> This is the fact that they no NO EFFORT to find out what it meant
> themselves.

Even if that were true...responding to them with the curt "search the
archive", "read the KB", "buy a book", may allow you vent your justifiable
frustration, or insure that the lazy questioner is forced to work for
his/her answer, but it does NOTHING for any other newbee.

When Carrie was active on the list, she developed a style that was
helpful, polite and provided a means, if read, for folks to find things on
their own.

> 
> I dont think Dan answered the question in such a way as to make the
> questioner feel dumb. Perhaps it made others feel dumb, but who knows. I
> believe that the guy who asked the question will probably check the archives
> now, which can only be a good thing.

I guess we're just going to agree to disagree.  I find "have you thought"
of statements boorish and insulting...very much like "Have you stopped
beating your wife?"

A small rewording might have given the poster a hint on how to search the
archives.

thom
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