[Asterisk-Users] Why should I answer a Newbie question, therethick!

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On March 2, 2005 11:27 am, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> As a person who spent 9 hours in traffic last winter just to drive 15
> miles due to idiots who should have just stayed home, I think your
> analogy breaks down.
>
> At some point, you either need to learn to drive or you pay someone else
> to transport you or your stuff. Same applies to computer work, either
> you can do the work yourself or you pay someone else to do it. Even your
> snow driver analogy works here, you either get yourself out of the ditch
> or you pay someone to do it for you.
>
> The payment is not always monetary. Sometimes the payment is just a
> showing of sufficient effort. Back to your snow driver analogy, if the
> driver in the ditch is just waiting in the car for you to come over and
> push them out without even attempting anything on their own, you would
> be less inclined to bother. You would be even less inclined to continue
> exerting your own effort if the driver was not cooperating or wasn't
> even interested in getting out to help push.

/me cheers

I could not have said it better myself.  This needs to go in the FRONT PAGE of 
the Wiki and the archive link needs to be put in the topic of #asterisk.  
Hell Olle's weekly newbie reminder email needs this put in it, too.

AMEN, brother, AMEN!!!

-A.