Paul, I appreciate all the time and effort you have invested in Zope and I also appreciate the investment of other members. However, I don't feel that any member has the right to be rude to another member because of their seniority. In fact, one would expect a senior member to serve as a role model for starters. In the past I have been snubbed by several members for reasons unknown to me(in particular, Jung and Maurer). These two seem to think that they own the group and have insulted me as well as others on numerous occasions. I appreciate their input and the time they have invested in Zope, but does this give them the right to abuse others? Also, on numerous occasions people have made assumptions about what I did or did not do before posting a question to the group. I usually spend a couple of hours trying to diagnose the problem myself before posting it to the group. However, the solution is sometimes not evident. Does this give other members the right to degrade me? This is the point that Mike was trying to make. Thanks for listening Paul. - Asad On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Paul Winkler wrote:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:07:38PM -0400, Tiller, Michael (M.M.) wrote:
<rant> This is such a bunch of bullshit. I am so tired of "the answer is out there somewhere, why can't you find it yourself?" being the justification for not helping people who ask reasonable questions. To add insult to injury Asad was being quite courteous (e.g. he went so far as to thank you for your initial response) and you guys just start jumping all over him.
Please explain to me why the mailing list should be a solution-of-last-result???
It's not. But IMHO posting a perfectly valid solution in 10 minutes, followed by a pointer to well-written documentation, and a hint that the API is well documented in the source code (frequently it's not so this is good to know!)... is a damn good response and I don't think anybody should be faulted for that.
In this case I think the wrong guy got jumped on for a general trend of "solve my problem for me" posts. To Asad: I don't think you did anything wrong, but your second post could have maybe been more informative (e.g. what's wrong with the first solution? have you read the Sessions chapter in the online zope book? Have you looked at the relevant parts of the API Reference?)
Chill out folks, this is nothing to fight about.
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