[Zope] Disgraceful

[Paul Winkler]

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.
 
-- 

Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com