From: Jonathan Hays (nomad@gfoyle.org)
Date: Tue Mar 30 2004 - 22:45:41 GMT-3
Gee, you're right! I never thought of that!
;-)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
>Behalf Of Brian McGahan
>Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:44 PM
>To: Jonathan Hays; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: How to ask a question
>
>
>Jonathan,
>
> Instead of wasting all this time on researching the answer,
>wouldn't it just be easier to ask somebody that already knows?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593
>bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com
>
>Internetwork Expert, Inc.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
>Of
>> Jonathan Hays
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:01 PM
>> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: How to ask a question
>>
>> In the hopes of teaching people how to get better responses to their
>> GroupStudy posts, I offer this link by Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen:
>>
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>> Here's my favorite excerpt:
>>
>> - - -
>> "Before You Ask
>>
>> Before asking a technical question by email, or in a newsgroup, or on
>a
>> website chat board, do the following:
>>
>> Try to find an answer by searching the Web.
>>
>> Try to find an answer by reading the manual.
>>
>> Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.
>>
>> Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.
>>
>> Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.
>>
>> If you are a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source
>> code.
>>
>> When you ask your question, display the fact that you have done these
>> things first; this will help establish that you're not being a lazy
>> sponge and wasting people's time. Better yet, display what you have
>> learned from doing these things. We like answering questions for
>people
>> who have demonstrated that they can learn from the answers."
>> - - -
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
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