On 13/07/07, Jim Burton
As well as being nice, can't you sometimes tell people to RTFM? Or, You've asked that before, or That's an FAQ, search the archive?
I suppose you could, but speaking as someone who doesn't know much but tries to answer questions when he does know - I would feel put off from answering questions in that case. If the "easy questions" become second-class citizens, I would be less likely to answer them. I don't want to give the impression that *I* am encouraging the degeneration of the list. So I would vote for only saying read the manual/FAQ/etc after the question has been answered. (That being said, I can never find what I'm looking for on the Haskell wiki; and as mentioned in other threads Google doesn't index it. So finding the relevant answers can be tricky.) Cheers, Dougal