GroupStudy posting guidelines and how to make the most of the

I've got nothing to do with GroupStudy, other than as a list member,
but seriously folks, some of you need to re-visit the guidelines
(assuming you ever bothered to familiarise yourself with them at all).

They're here: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html

And I've copied, without permission, what I consider to be the most
routinely breached guidelines right here:

1. Verify the topic has not already been covered by searching the
archives at http://www.groupstudy.com
4. Always edit your quoted replies to the bare essential. Do not
quote the entire message including the signature. This just waste
bandwidth.
7. Double check the archives at http://www.groupstudy.com to verify
your question/topic has not already been covered.
10. In general, the message body should be longer then the signature.
11. Re-read your message before posting to verify it will be of
interest to the other list members.
13. Always check the archives at http://www.groupstudy.com before posting!

(spot the theme? :-))

I linked this site in another message but here it comes again for
those that missed it:

 How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
 http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I'm not sending this to be a "do-good'er" -- I think that knowing how
to ask questions effectively is a great skill, and you will get much
better results from the list if you follow some of the recommendations
in the 'How To Ask Questions The Smart Way' document.

To be GroupStudy specific, many people fail to include IOS configs or
partial configs when describing a problem. Many people also fail to
show that they've had a good crack at
fixing/understanding/researching/debugging the problem themselves. If
you ask a question the wrong way, many list members won't bother to
respond because it's "too hard".

In summary: help us help you! :-)

Whine complete.

cheers,
Dale

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Received on Tue May 26 2009 - 16:51:48 ART