On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:43:41 -0500 Tom Neff <tneff@bigfoot.com> wrote:

I do want to re-emphasize that what I was really complaining about was the kind of thing where someone asks "How do I get rid of the HTML and HEAD tags when my DTML method is viewed," and someone else answers "You can't, that's in the browser" -- i.e., complete BS. If you don't know _how_ to verify a statement like that before posting it, or you don't have _time_ to verify it, then you should not post it at all. Let someone else handle it.

Before we get too hot under the collar about all this, let's step back a second and relax. There's no deliberate sowing of confusion going on here. People aren't deliberately posting bogus data as truth, or misrepresenting themselves as the fount of all Zope wisdom. So sometimes people post things that aren't correct, or are even blatantly false. Big Deal. The main thing they've revealed is that they don't understand something (like there aren't plenty of things we don't fully understand ourselves). People try and help other people. This is a Good Thing, is something to be lauded, and something to be encouraged. A problem however is that much of the time our knowledge is incompleat and the answers we give, are, well, incompleat. Worse, sometimes we jsut don't know enough, or in enough detail to realise that our answers are incompleat or even flat out wrong. So, being well intentioned and even earnest, we get corrected, and learn, and hopefully next time give better and more compleat answers. This isn't even something unique to Zope. I've seen the exact same process and mechanics going in in every technical forum I've been in, even if the subject is well defined, well documented, well explored and more than 100 years old. People are generally well intentioned, try to do the "right thing" and to help where they can. Sometimes their help is misguided. Whoopee. Give them a chance to re-educate and do better next time. If they don't, ___then___ call in the attack dogs. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw@kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder@kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--