From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: lamers on IRC Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 23:45:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87k0abylcy.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87wnedb6xe.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qwk8qtt.fsf@yandex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34768"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:3lwnn6gQUPYye01oBE2odYB5m0I= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 23 23:55:52 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ntG1o-0008s7-2G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 23:55:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42646 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntG1m-0002BQ-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 17:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55420) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntG15-0002BF-2a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 17:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:51466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntG11-0007bW-Ru for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 17:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ntG10-0007vj-4X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 23:55:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137374 Archived-At: Colin Baxter wrote: > I agree wholeheartily with the above. I tried #emacs but > quickly gave up and now never go there. #emacs and IRC in general can be fun, the usefulness of it is often short questions that you know there is a short and easy answer to, but for some reason you can't find it in the documentation. For long questions and in particular long answers or many different answers that require discussion and maybe subsequent questions mailing lists/newsgroups are better. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal