[mrtg] Re: Behaviour Enforcers

[Kenyatte Simuel]

I agree also with what has been said.  I think that you have two camps.
The camp that thinks that posting a question is admitting defeat (which I
think I am in that group) and the one that relies on this group for an
instructional how-to.

I think it needs to be known what this newsgroup is for.  I think it is
the final resolution to a question after you have exhausted all options.
The options include the manual, the other links, etc.  I have put up the
somix website so many times for example for configuration files. I got
that website from the MRTG homepage. 
People need to realize that while there are many people that run MRTG and
many people who help Newbies out, those people are not here to answer
every question.  If a question is not answered it is probably because a.)
people might think that the person hasn't looked in a well known
repository and if the person goes to the MRTG website then they might find
it.  Or B) They might not know an answer...

Sorry about my Rant.  I get upset because I don't like to ask questions
and like to figure things out myself...

Kenyatte Velord Simuel
Cisco CCNA
NetLink Technologies Network Infrastructure
765-742-2420 x234




On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Paul C. Williamson wrote:

> 
> Ken, you are sooooo right.  I spend at least two days looking for answers in the manual, then another couple looking through the online stuff before I think about posting.  Then I watch the list for another day because it seems as if a question I would ask will usually pop up on the list soon after I start wondering about it...
> 
> Paul
> 
> >>> "Stieers, Ken" <KStieers at DainRauscher.com> 10/02/00 02:08PM >>>
> 
> I've been a member of this list for a couple of years now and at one point
> posted answers VERY often (my numbers were higher than Alex's for a while
> there).  I can't tell you the number of times I posted "Use Option[]:bits"
> and a quote from the the config.html file, or other similarly simple things.
> In my opinion too many "admins" don't bother looking at the documentation at
> all.  A bit of moderation would do wonders in my opinion....
> 
> Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Bacher [mailto:jb at jbacher.com] 
> Sent: Monday October 02, 2000 12:57 PM
> To: oetiker at ee.ethz.ch; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch 
> Subject: [mrtg] Re: Behaviour Enforcers
> 
> 
> 
> At 12:59 PM 10/2/00 -0400, Paul C. Williamson wrote:
> >the number in the first row is the number of posts they sent to the
> >list over the last 3 months ...
> >
> >what do you think
> >Tobi
> 
> An evaluation of the number of valid posts vs invalid posts over X period 
> would lend a better determination for the need to enforce moderation over 
> suggesting that people just delete through the "I'VE POSTED THIS THREE 
> TIMES" type of material.
> 
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