Timeline for Why was this question marked as off topic?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 19, 2012 at 8:10 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @WesleyDavid: Whatever happens people need to be consistent. Right now some people will edit & reopen some questions with obvious home use and will inconsistently just vote-to-close similar ones like this. | |
| Dec 18, 2012 at 0:38 | comment | added | Wesley | @catpants It all sounds good to me - just know that ServerFault can be touchy about certain things, plus I think at this point in history we're heading towards a showdown over topics like this to figure out if we should be more liberal. | |
| Dec 17, 2012 at 22:40 | vote | accept | cat pants | ||
| Dec 17, 2012 at 22:40 | comment | added | cat pants | One final clarification. I know in this instance I presented the scenario as "friends overseas". I used that scenario because that was the one currently fresh in my mind, as they had contacted me quite recently. But this issue has indeed cropped up for me a number of times in a professional environment as well. I'm sure you have end users who use FTP. | |
| Dec 17, 2012 at 22:37 | comment | added | cat pants | Finally, I like the edited question. I will refer back to this when asking future questions here. Thank you for your time and help! | |
| Dec 17, 2012 at 22:36 | comment | added | cat pants | The end users are in this case non-technical, despite being in a professional environment. For example, I deal with customers every day in a professional setting that have no idea what rsync is, and have ZERO interest in learning. Ie, they want to stick with something they are familiar with, such as FTP, and will in fact get quite angry when another option is put forward. I'm sure you must have experienced similar things! :) | |
| Dec 17, 2012 at 22:33 | comment | added | cat pants | Thank for you the very detailed response! I appreciate it, and thanks to this response I learned a lot about what is expected here on Server Fault. This in particular: "plus I don't know how to get rsync working on Windows" I wanted to respond to. It wasn't necessarily a matter of me learning how to do or not do something, as I am always interested in learning! I should have added more clarity to that statement, the real issue is that even if I learned how to use rsync, trying to communicate how to get that set up with an end user who does not speak english would be a difficult task. | |
| Dec 17, 2012 at 19:56 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | Yay. Go Wesley! Go Wesley! Go Wesley! Weeessslllyyyy! It fills my heart to see edits over closes, even if they do come the wrong way around. | |
| Dec 17, 2012 at 19:36 | history | edited | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2012 at 19:19 | history | answered | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |