From: George Foot Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: docs and ng posting (Was: Re: Newbie question, newbie error) Date: 11 Feb 1998 19:05:56 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Lines: 34 Message-ID: <6bssqk$42g$1@news.ox.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:20:37 +0200 (IST) in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii wrote: : It might strike some that I, too, have a life beyond helping DJGPP users, : and I also have a job which lets me have a life. Why is my time cheaper : than somebody else's? Please don't assume that the time I spend replying : to requests is negligible: it's not. It never ceases to amaze me how much time you must spend helping people out. : > maybe we all here should start replying the "easy questions" and let : > the "hard ones" to them :-) : Actually, this is a great idea! Provided the answers given are correct! :) An inaccurate answer can give wrong information to those who don't know the real answer, and confuse those who do. : The FAQ already has an index (actually, it has two of them). Look at the : end of the FAQ. I suspect that those indices are under-used--which is a : shame, since I make such an effort to index everything there. If you : think those indices lack some references, I will be glad to hear about : them. I think the indices are very good indeed; I use them often, when I need to look something up for myself or to give a reference to somebody else. -- george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk ko tavla fo la lojban