Re: [CentOS] IRC telling you to go to mailing list - it's for good reason ....

R P Herrold wrote:

Drive-bys and externalities are a problem and under the old design the CentOS wiki was not such a pigsty; some other team members lobbied for a less OCD approach on what is in and off topic, and how 'spoon-feeding' was treated. The jury is still out on this new approach in my mind; I know I get push back from old-timers who preferred the higher signal to noise ratio, and want 'quality' back as a preferred metric over 'friendliness' ...

What's a drive-by, and until a post is made and answered somewhere, how is a user supposed to know if a failure is caused by something local (mix of software, internet infrastructure), one repo mirror, or the basic infrastructure?