On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Mailing List <mail_list at woh.rr.com> wrote: > On 1/23/2011 6:00 PM, Mark wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 01/23/11 12:55 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Mark<mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Can you tell us why you cross posted this to the Ubuntu mailing list? >>>>> Are you just fishing for answers for your homework, like S. Mathis? > > I can not see the reason to why his question is being scrutinized. If I > needed an > answer whether it be homework or legitimate work I was doing, I would ask > where ever > I thought I would get the right answer. > There are people out there who prey on lists like this one to post questions that are either a) completely off topic or b) obvious low-level "technical" questions that only a student would be likely to ask. One of the telltale signs is cross-posting the same question to multiple similar lists, which gets brought up by those of us who are on more than one list of this nature, e.g., Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc. This list is a little less picky about questions posted here that are at least somewhat related to CentOS, but others are not so lenient. In particular, questions and discussions about basic programming or general Linux questions should be directed to more appropriate fora, since this list is specifically for questions that have something to do with CentOS. I, too, have posted off-topic questions here (many times), but I don't blast them out all over creation and I try to make sure they are marked OT. Most recently, there were a spate of questions from someone "named" S. Mathias that were clearly being asked by someone with little or no development experience and which had nothing at all to do with the specific OSs in whose groups this person cross-posted. They looked suspiciously like questions one would expect to see on beginner-level programming classes. That's my irk on this one.