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  Re: Opinion: Replies too general...  
From: Greg M  Johnson
Date: 3 Nov 2000 09:25:04
Message: <3A02C974.7498ACB1@my-dejanews.com>
Warp wrote:

> Simon Lemieux <lem### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> : I'm actually pretty good at povray and I read a lot of the
> : manual and looked a some of the examples!  This is a useless answer, why do
> : people answer this kind of thing?
>
>   I don't remember any concrete example of seeing this kind of answer to
> a very specific question which is not trivially answered in the documentation
> of some (V)FAQ.
>   At least here, usually when people answer with an RTFM, it's a very trivial
> thing that can be found directly in the documentation if the user just looked
> a bit at it (eg. "how can I read a GIF and use it as an image map?").

How about if we made a team of people willing to help novices with problems, even
if the answers were (in the opinion of a few) "trivially answered in the docs" ?


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