student enlightened us with:
> Because I believe, both as a practical matter and as a matter
> courtesy, that I should always check first to see if other people
> are having the same problem that I am having before I bother the
> developers about it. As often as not, the "problem" is on my side,
> not the developers'.

Then at least you should be a little more courteous and post a bit
more than a stack trace. I'd expect "Could someone please help me
figure out how to fix this before I annoy the developers with this?"
instead of:

> What the hell else do you think usenet is for? A Stalag 17 for
> self-appointed internet police sergeants to mill around and shout
> "RTFM!" at each other?

Grow up and try to become as courteous as you proclaim to be.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?