Fair enough, but I don't belive that all postings need to be questions, or
cries for help. Just starting a small debate about certain things and
raising various points is equally valid, although I personally tend to post
questions when in I need help.
Yes, about special situations, new topics, etc. There is
nothing new about the types of posts made like should raid
be used, what is raid, how to surge protect a PC, etc.
These are all topics thoroughly covered in past usenet posts
as well as many website articles.
Even if Talal doesn't really need to know this stuff, it doesn't do any harm
for us to answer, because there will be many more readers of these posts and
some of them might just find something interesting or useful.
Sure it does, harm. Do you have an infinite amount of time?
Of course not, nobody does. By taking up time and bandwidth
to cover topics that have already been sufficiently covered,
it robs others from having their posts seen at all, since a
finite amount of time allows only so many posts to be
addressed.
It also robs the poster of the basic question from having a
complete answer because people do not tend to write long
articles for answers to such basic questions, especially not
after they'd been asked several times and the information
was readily available elsewhere.
