[hobbit] Sorry... I had to vent

Jerald Sheets questy at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 03:22:03 CET 2010


No...  But now I'm curious!  :)

--j


On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:

> Are you from Richmond Indiana?
> 
> On 3/23/10, Xymon User in Richmond <hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, March 23, 2010 21:16, Jerald Sheets wrote:
>>> Does anyone at all RTFM any more?
>>> 
>>> We have wikis, docs, a several-year mailing list archive, three wonderful
>>> software and addon repositories.
>>> 
>>> Still, we have questions that are in the man pages on the freaking Xymon
>>> menu and even in their own separate page on the Xymon help menu in the
>>> installation itself.
>>> 
>>> This group exists to help when you've reached a level of proficiency, and
>>> thing that aren't clearly spelled out in the docs are not working as
>>> expected, or there are little "gotchas" that you might need help with that
>>> we've all been through.
>>> 
>>> True, I'm the first person to grump at someone when they don't receive a
>>> newcomer in a friendly manner, but coming on here and asking questions
>>> that are clearly laid out in the docs is just plain lazy.
>>> 
>> 
>> You're certainly at least as entitled to your rant as the rantees are to
>> ask questions that show that they're either lazy or stupid.  And I think
>> you've done it in the right way, expressing the general issue without
>> pointing a finger at specific posts, something I don't always have the
>> good grace to avoid.  Now back to our regularly scheduled programming....
>> 
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