"Roel Toledo" <dontsendmailstome_at_bogusmail.com> wrote in message news:<JArD7.89822$WW.4935347_at_bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael G. Schneider" <mgs_at_mgs-software.de>
> Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 1:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Sybrand Bakker
>
>
> > "Norman Dunbar" <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA72714EA_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk...
> >
> > > He answers a whole load of queries on this NG, sometimes over and over
> > > and over again - because people don't seem to want to check out the
> > > archives, first - understandable when in a fix, but ...
> >
> > How about simply ignoring those questions? There is no need to jump on
> each
> > and every question and get offending, if you can't stand it.
> >
> > Michael G. Schneider
>
>
> I agree.
>
> Realistically, nobody can stop a newbie from being lazy and whip his
> questions right away without doing his own research. I know this is
> frustrating for some people who hate to repeat an answer but you can't
> forever say "This question has been answered many times already." If you
> do, you will spend a great deal of your time, writing that statement over
> and over to every newcomer who asks without looking at the archives. That's
> what Sybrand is doing and he is wasting his own time by acting like a
> policeman of this NG who scolds every newcomer who violates the so-called
> rules. It is a totally futile effort on his part.
>
> I believe the NG serves a dual purpose of being a venue for raising
> questions and the unobvious but great purpose of being a venue for anybody
> to become a teacher or a mentor. Being a teacher or mentor is a fulfilling
> thing to a lot of people. I can't remember the exact words but there is a
> dictum that says, one can only consider himself a truly learned person if he
> can teach what he knows.
>
> So if one is tired of repeating himself when somebody is asking about a
> topic that has been answered in the past, he simply does not have to answer
> and let somebody else do the task of being mentor or a teacher this time.
>
> Roel
Man, you said it all. I couldn't agree more.
lcnobre
Received on Tue Nov 06 2001 - 12:23:36 CST
