&gt; Read the mailing lists.<p>I would have a lot more sympathy for this point of view if they didn&#x27;t fill the mailing lists with replies on the topic that were extremely unhelpful.  Every reply that doesn&#x27;t steer the poster towards a <i>useful</i> prior discussion or further the discussion in some way muddies the mailing list for future searchers, leading to more questions on topics that have been covered before.  It&#x27;s a self perpetuating cycle.  Guess who has the power to stop it (or at least prevent it from getting worse)?