Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <2177393.4orgOXNLzl@PointedEars.de> From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:09:20 +0100 User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Face: %i>XG-yXR'\"2P/C_aO%~;2o~?g0pPKmbOw^=NT`tprDEf++D.m7"}HW6.#=U:?2GGctkL,f89@H46O$ASoW&?s}.k+&. <1868da91-d142-49ee-8b09-27c0983c1af4@a2g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Followup-To: comp.lang.javascript MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 52 NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Dec 2012 16:09:20 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 71fe24b7.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=VC`NH@5GM04Fo<]lROoR1nkgeX?EC@@0E^]7Dg`Z:Q:DZm8W4\YJN Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >> There are surely better forums for technical discussions about >> JacaScript nowadays. The best that this group could do is to act as a >> fairly friendly and open forum that welcomes newcomers. From this >> standpoint, I can hardly imagine a worse choice for the FAQ maintainer. > > IMHO support in this newsgroup and maintaining the FAQ are not /too/ > closely related. The FAQ should be a sober document; support should be > friendly and kind. Allow me clarify a few misconceptions you appear to have. This is a Usenet discussion group, not a customer support forum. Those who give answers here are volunteers, doing this in their free time, for free. Which is why politeness here is (as usual) a good idea, but, as you can see in many postings by several people, it is *optional*. For example, if someone thinks that you are telling or doing nonsense, you will be told upfront, in public, that what you are telling or doing *is* nonsense. You will not be told that it would be “not quite right” in order to pamper your oversensitive customer soul. There is an old saying here: “Usenet is not a right.” You have no right to receive a quick answer. You have no right to receive a polite answer. You have no right to receive a correct answer. You have no right to receive an answer that helps you. You have no right to receive an answer *at all*. Good answers, and the *free time* invested by people to give them, are *earned* by posting interesting, thought-provoking questions and ideas. That has been so for more than a decade and it should continue to be so, for that is how we can weed out the mistakes, and people can become better developers than before they subscribed to the newsgroup. If you cannot deal with that approach, please go elsewhere. Perhaps to those “better forums” (which cannot be and actually are _not_ better in terms of *quality*, of course). IOW, should the subscribers of this newsgroup ever agree that it became a customer support forum, I am gone. This is not a threat; it is a fact. See also (referred to from the FAQ). HTH PointedEars -- realism: HTML 4.01 Strict evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict madness: XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml -- Bjoern Hoehrmann