On Sun, 30 May 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? Lemme change hats Dunno that I know your 'nick', Les, nor have seen contribution by you in #centos IRC. Is the CentOS' re-design on IRC a culture you understand via lurking a bit? [Clearly the earlier poster I trimmed down to respond to was not, as it clearly misstated some CentOS changes from 'bog standard' IRC practice] First order answer: A drive by is a person who pops into channel, does NOT read /topic, does NOT lurk for a minute or two, immediately asks a question fragment usually in 'l33t spe at k' or AOLbonics. They will re-ask it 15 seconds later when an answer is not immediately offered. If answered, it will turn out that there was some additional backstory such that the drive-by's queston was not well formed Second order answer: A 'serial' drive by is known by their 'nick' as such by the regulars who do the heavy listing in the change of adding substantive content, and as such, not treated as a priority to answer; Often we will see that 'nick' posting the same question as a cross-posting in parallel on several channels, or a referral to #centos from side projects of similar import or from forks (usually broken ones) unwilling to support their load, and so shifting it to us -- Russ herrold