This used to be a great list

Robert Spanjaard spamtrap at arumes.com
Wed Aug 25 12:09:05 UTC 2010


On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:43:32 +0200, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

> Op 24-08-10 20:43, daniel mcfarland schreef:
> 
>>    I agree.  I'd wager that about 99.999999% of these topics and
>> questions could be answered
>>    just by doing a bit of googling.
> 
> Do you know what annoys me? In the rare cases that *I* have a question,
> it is usually quite complex, and the only answer that Google can find is
> my own question on this or other mailing lists. It's like a snake biting
> it's own tail.
> 
> This has happened to me more than a couple of times. It wouldn't
> surprise me if there was a word for this phenomenon in The Jargon File.

What I find even more annoying, is googling for a _frequently_ asked 
question, finding about a hundred different answers, and _none_ of them 
actually work.

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