On 12/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Wormsley</b> <<a href="mailto:daworm@comcast.net">daworm@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br> Even for the total newbies, we're still all geeks to<br>some degree or another, and everyone knows that geeks don't read any<br>more of the documentation than they have to, which is "How do I install"<br>to begin with and "Bugs" when something goes wrong. "Feature Wishlist"
<br>isn't something to read before starting, and doesn't even enter into the<br>equation when someone runs into this issue.<br></blockquote></div><br>
Probably true. But you'd think that "geeks" would at least search
the mailing-list archives before posting a question to that
mailing-list. Given that this topic has been discussed ad nauseum
(repeatedly) I can't see any possible way that a halfway intelligently
crafted search of the archives wouldn't turn up several of those
threads. In fact, I just now went to the gossamer archive and
searched on "channel change slow". That got me 12 pages of
results, at least half of which are applicable to this exact
discussion. You can't tell me that it's unreasonable for a new
user with slow channel changing problems to go to the mailing list
archive and type in that exact search phrase before issuing a new
request to the list for that problem.<br>
<br>
And that is, at least partly, why users are often greeted with
anger/impatience when they post questions like that to this list.
The fact is that very, very many of them don't bother to do their own
legwork and look up info on the resources available to them. It's
so much easier to just ask someone else. Problem is, that someone
else has probably already answered that question many times - and their
answers are in the archives (that's what archives are for). If
you can't spend 10-15 minutes doing a little research into the problem
yourself you really can't be upset when you get "yelled at" by the
people that answer this question on a weekly basis.<br>
<br>
Brad<br>
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