Re: [squid-users] SUGGESTIONS! Attention Modulators!

The other problem I've noticed in my years here (and perhaps equally
frustrating on other technical mailing lists, I just pay more attention
here):

Too few people bother to read the FAQ before posting. If I know the
question is a FAQ, and it doesn't say in the first couple lines of a
post "I read this entry in the FAQ, and did X, Y, and Z, but I still
have a problem" then I generally ignore the question altogether.
Leaving it to be answered by folks who are newer to the list (who may
not have yet seen the question a hundred times) or not answered at all.

I ignore them not out of rudeness, just an unwillingness to spend time
on folks who won't spend a little time trying to discover a solution for
themselves.

Just my .02 (more than anyone wanted in this case, probably). Just call
me the Grumpy Squid Nerd. (Hmmm...And Adrian can be Happy, Henrik is
Doc, Duane is Sleepy...Or maybe I'm pushing that too far.)

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> "Yuri O. Oira" wrote:
>
>
>>I know this is a free space for Squid users but in this way, we could
>>readily identify the basic things that we should know before helping an
>>emailer.
>>
>>1. that everyone could include their Linux Flavour, Version
>>2. that everyone could include their Squid's version and Stable number
>>3. ? {add your suggestions here}
>>
>
> While this would be nice, it isn't really that much of a problem.
>
> What is taken for granted unless the poster says otherwise is that the
> latest STABLE version of Squid is being used. This is the most
> important. In fact, even if a person is running an older version, it is
> assumed the person is considering upgrading and the answer to questions
> on older versions is most often "upgrade".
>
> Regards
> Henrik Nordström
> Squid Developer
> Providing Free Squid support thanks to MARA Systems AB

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