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I've noticed an uptick in questions that are literally asking us to read the vendor's spec sheets to someone (There's PowerEdge 2950 hard diskPowerEdge 2950 hard disk , this weekend we had one asking what the address space limits of WinXP 64-bit were, and we've had a bunch that seem to have been closed which were asking about provider-specific configuration questions like How do I do X in my Rackspace account manager?).

What is the consensus on these? Should we answer them, should we lay the closure smackdown on them, or should we do something else?

I've noticed an uptick in questions that are literally asking us to read the vendor's spec sheets to someone (There's PowerEdge 2950 hard disk , this weekend we had one asking what the address space limits of WinXP 64-bit were, and we've had a bunch that seem to have been closed which were asking about provider-specific configuration questions like How do I do X in my Rackspace account manager?).

What is the consensus on these? Should we answer them, should we lay the closure smackdown on them, or should we do something else?

I've noticed an uptick in questions that are literally asking us to read the vendor's spec sheets to someone (There's PowerEdge 2950 hard disk , this weekend we had one asking what the address space limits of WinXP 64-bit were, and we've had a bunch that seem to have been closed which were asking about provider-specific configuration questions like How do I do X in my Rackspace account manager?).

What is the consensus on these? Should we answer them, should we lay the closure smackdown on them, or should we do something else?

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I've noticed an uptick in questions that are literally asking us to read the vendor's spec sheets to someone (There's PowerEdge 2950 hard disk , and this weekend we had one asking what the address space limits of WinXP 64-bit were, and we've had a bunch that seem to have been closed which were asking about provider-specific configuration questions like How do I do X in my Rackspace account manager?).

What is the consensus on these? Should we answer them, should we lay the closure smackdown on them, or should we do something else?

I've noticed an uptick in questions that are literally asking us to read the vendor's spec sheets to someone (There's PowerEdge 2950 hard disk , and this weekend we had one asking what the address space limits of WinXP 64-bit were).

What is the consensus on these? Should we answer them, should we lay the closure smackdown on them, or should we do something else?

I've noticed an uptick in questions that are literally asking us to read the vendor's spec sheets to someone (There's PowerEdge 2950 hard disk , this weekend we had one asking what the address space limits of WinXP 64-bit were, and we've had a bunch that seem to have been closed which were asking about provider-specific configuration questions like How do I do X in my Rackspace account manager?).

What is the consensus on these? Should we answer them, should we lay the closure smackdown on them, or should we do something else?

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What do we do about "Specifications" questions?

I've noticed an uptick in questions that are literally asking us to read the vendor's spec sheets to someone (There's PowerEdge 2950 hard disk , and this weekend we had one asking what the address space limits of WinXP 64-bit were).

What is the consensus on these? Should we answer them, should we lay the closure smackdown on them, or should we do something else?