Ted Dennison wrote in message <7u555v$v9a$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>In article <7u4oko$nqv$1@minus.oleane.net>,
>  "Sybs ALHABSHI" <sybs@htsavoie.com> wrote:
>> Sybs
>> > apparently didn't bother to search deja for a previous asking of his

                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ !
>> > question.
>>
>> That is not true. The truth is I'm new to news groups. I don't know
>> what d�j� is. What is deja ? I've seen that words a few times and I
>> thought that's a search engine.
>
>Sort of. Deja has archived all of Usenet for about the last 5 years.
>Unless you've got a really weird question, it has probably been asked
>before. So generally your first recourse when you have a question
>to pose to *any* newsgroup should be to search deja's archive of the
>newsgroup to see if your question has been answered already.



! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think that the best search engine is the human mind.
If someone in the news group already knows/remembers
the answer and it does not take more than few minutes
to give the answer why not to do so.

If giving the answer would take more than just few minutes
one might just give the hint where to search  (archive, time period,
topic name, some keywords, author name).

The word community implies sort of attitude to each other.

But if is there is no desire or time to give the answer it is
better not to bother to spend time  for that.  Many times
I noticed that occasionally people spend much more time
and efforts explaining and reasoning why they won't give
the answer or explaining what one should do before asking
 that question though  giving direct answer or hint would
take twice (or even more) less time.

The only valid reason for irritation is when the SAME person
asks the SAME question more times than  addressed person
tolerance threshold which is different for different people
(from 0 to infinity:-).
People with tolerance threshould = 0 should not try
to answer at all :-)

I think that when FAQs page will be alive again and
cross-referenced from different sites it would reduce
the number of already answered questions.


Regards,
Vladimir Olensky.