Mailarchives (TIB: A suggestion)

I've noticed something here. A lot of the problems that people ask about on this list are problems that they could _easily_ solve themselves if they would just READ THE F***ING MANUAL!!! This mailing list group should be for intermedate-advanced programmers to discuss creative and complex solutions to programming problems and for us advanced people to help newbies understand concepts and instructions that they don't get even _after_ they've read what's in the manual. Most (all?) TI manuals have an index in the back that categorizes the instructions by use (all the mathematics instructions are listed together, all the vector commands are listed together) so you can find what kind of function you're looking for, then it tells you all the page numbers so you can find an explanation of each item in the Functions and Instructions appendix. Don't come asking the group if you haven't even checked this section of the manual yet. For example, the person who asked about searching a string on the TI-89 could have easily solved his own problem by opening up his manual, going to the listing of all the string commands, and investigating them all in the Functions and Instructions reference until he found what he was looking for. He could've done this in 15 min. or less by himself and been further along with whatever program he's working on right now. If you've read the manual and you still don't understand something or you still can't find what you're looking for, THEN send out an e-mail asking for help (and PLEASE indicate that you have tried the manual so jerks like me don't get pissed off at you again. Not that I'm pissed off at the person who asked about searching a string, or anybody for that matter...I'm sure you're all very wonderful people. It's just the principle of the thing that annoys me.). THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

<<Once again, please let me know if you think what I say is too harsh or abrasive and I will gladly tone down my language. Seriously, the last thing I want to do is offend anybody -- it just bugs me when people don't even _try_ to solve their own problems before they go to someone else (which is fine when emotional issues are involved -- it's better then to talk to somebody -- but c'mon people, we're talking about programming!), especially when it would be very easy to do so!!!>>