[MPlayer-users] P L E A S E ! ! !

[jasonrc at gomdoli.com]

On Wed, 08 May 2002, Frederick Grim wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> No no,  why create another list for people who bothered to read the docs
> to monitor.  I want to answer questions if I can.  If somebody has a

What harm could a newbie list cause?

> linux box then they should be used to reading docs...for that matter if
> someone has anything cars, computer whatever then they should read the
> damn instruction manual imho.  Compiling mplayer and running it is not

Yes maybe, but there are just some people who have yet to learn that.
All they want to do it watch there dvd.

> rocket science for the love of god.  But this shouldn't turn into a
> flame..just let silly messages go straight to /dev/null

I hope my posts are read as a flame. I'm just proposing an idea and
trying to justify it. I like polite debate :)

jason
>                                       Fred
> 
> 
> n Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:50:32PM -0400, jasonrc at gomdoli.com wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Why not create a different list for these types of questions. Obviously,
> > either people aren't reading the manuel, or are reading it with out
> > understanding it. I propose a mplayer-newbie list to handle the RTFM
> > type of questions. Give people a place to work out there problems. Many
> > projects do this with the user list, and use a dev list for more
> > technical problems, but since mplayer-user is being used for a
> > different purpose, might as well create a mplayer-newbie list to handle
> > the other stuff.
> > 
> > my humble opinion
> > 
> > jason
> > 
> > On Thu, 09 May 2002, Arpi wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > PLEASE!
> > > Enough of "this is not working! Help me!" messages! really!
> > > 
> > > please read that fucking DOCS/bugreports.html, it was written with reason!
> > > 
> > > even if you think it's your dumbness and not a bug, read it and provide
> > > informations requested there, as without these we (or users) can NOT HELP
> > > you! we still cannot read in people's mind!!! (anyone has patches for this
> > > feature? :))
> > > 
> > > if you have problems, include the whole (NEVER cut down) mplayer -v (-v is
> > > VERY IMPORTANT THING) log, and also the environmental information (hardware,
> > > driver version, if Xv problem then xvinfo output, if fullscreen related
> > > stuff then window manager name+version, if crashed then the usual gdb stuff
> > > described in DOCS/bugreports.html, etc)
> > > 
> > > PLEASE!
> > > Enough of "this is not working! Help me!" messages! really!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> > > 
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