Re: [hobbit] Sorry... I had to vent

["Xymon User in Richmond" <hobbit (at) epperson.homelinux.net>]

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....