21 messages in com.mysql.lists.mysqlRe: Please read the manual| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Tõnu Samuel | 10 Jan 2001 13:57 | |
| Eric Fitzgerald | 10 Jan 2001 14:07 | |
| B. van Ouwerkerk | 10 Jan 2001 14:46 | |
| Dan Nelson | 10 Jan 2001 15:03 | |
| Brian P. Austin | 10 Jan 2001 16:49 | |
| Matt Wagner | 10 Jan 2001 20:30 | |
| Rolf Hopkins | 10 Jan 2001 22:03 | |
| Mikel King | 11 Jan 2001 01:44 | |
| Neff Patrick K | 11 Jan 2001 05:40 | |
| Edwin Martinez | 11 Jan 2001 06:08 | |
| Rolf Hopkins | 11 Jan 2001 07:43 | |
| Matt Wagner | 11 Jan 2001 13:43 | |
| Ralf R. Kotowski | 11 Jan 2001 14:05 | |
| Doug Young | 11 Jan 2001 14:11 | |
| Aaron Schlesinger | 11 Jan 2001 14:21 | |
| Brian Kaney | 11 Jan 2001 14:39 | |
| Richard Dice | 11 Jan 2001 14:50 | |
| Scott Gerhardt | 11 Jan 2001 14:54 | |
| Eric Fitzgerald | 11 Jan 2001 14:56 | |
| Rolf Hopkins | 11 Jan 2001 17:30 | |
| Carsten Gehling | 12 Jan 2001 00:47 |
| Subject: | Re: Please read the manual |
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| From: | Mikel King (mik...@ocsinternet.com) |
| Date: | 01/11/2001 01:44:58 AM |
| List: | com.mysql.lists.mysql |
In order to conserver bw I'll only through my $0.01 in...;) I do believe that if you search the list you will see that many of us who are not on the devteam do answer questions. Although I do whole heartedly believe in RTFM; I agree with you about the power of the people, and feel it is important for all of us to help by giving back to our community...;D
Cheers, Mikel
Neff Patrick K wrote:
Maybe it is the lack of coffee this morning talking or maybe it is the fact that I have spent 4 days trying to get mysql up and running on linux(a platform I am unfamiliar with) but I assumes this mailing list would allow me to have contact with other users who have been thru the same issues I have had. Apparently I was wrong. You see I am a newbie too and what turned me on to mysql ,linux and the open source movement was the fact that it seems to focus on the power of people and there combined knowledge. I am not stupid and I can read in fact I have look over this manual about 100 times now the last four evenings. I apologize for wasting anyone's time but before I can become a valid contributor to a group dealing with a specific software I first have to be able to get the thing running. I in fact finally got mysql up and running last night but not one word in your manual helped me do it. So in fact all the reading in the world would have left me sitting in the same position. I am sorry to rant and rave but maybe if some seasoned user on this mailing list (not the developers) would help us newbies then we could all work together to. That is my two cents sorry to waste your time with it.
-----Original Message----- From: Tõnu Samuel [mailto:to...@please.do.not.remove.this.spam.ee] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:58 PM To: mys...@lists.mysql.com Subject: Please read the manual
Maybe it is my depression and I see everything in black but .... please read manual before posting questions in this list. Manual covers at least 90% questions asked here. If manual does not cover them, we will put new chapters in it. This is all because what we do in this list can be called FREE support. As much I know, most of our developers are spending 2..4 hours per day just reading all related groups and answering questions "Error 2002: Can't connect via socket /tmp/mysql.sock".
Also I wanted to ask everyone who gets revenue from MySQL still buy support contract. While MySQL is free to users there are people behind it who eat, buy books, pay for internet connection get hardware and buy icecream to kids. This is not about home users. There are companies on NASDAQ who use heavily different open source software for their success and have never paid a penny. For that money you get guaranteed answers.
MySQL is free, support in this list is partially free but do not abuse it, then it can stay free in future.
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