From: Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nntp read: 14535k
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:43:22 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rnbqf6u6px.fsf@succubus.panacea.null.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182563910.937406.73970@g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
thesak <don.saklad@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jun 22, 11:51 am, m...@ixod.org (Mark T.B. Carroll) wrote:
> > Gernot Hassenpflug <ger...@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > 4. Search for Eric Raymond's article on how to ask smart questions.
> >
> > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> How To Answer Questions in a Helpful Way
>
> Be gentle. Problem-related stress can make people seem rude or stupid
> even when they're not.
I've seen very few ungentle answers to you.
> Reply to a first offender off-line. There is no need of public
> humiliation for someone who may have made an honest mistake. A real
> newbie may not know how to search archives or where the FAQ is stored
> or posted.
You are not a newbie and certainly not a first offender. The vast
majority of people are answering you in good faith, and as far as I
can tell you are simply ignoring the best answers.
- Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-14 11:29 thesak
2007-06-14 11:48 ` Slackrat
2007-06-14 12:04 ` thesak
2007-06-14 14:41 ` Slackrat
2007-06-14 20:01 ` thesak
2007-06-15 4:01 ` Slackrat
2007-06-21 13:00 ` Gernot Hassenpflug
2007-06-22 15:51 ` Mark T.B. Carroll
2007-06-23 1:58 ` thesak
2007-06-23 13:43 ` Joel Reicher [this message]
2007-06-27 22:42 ` Hadron
2007-06-20 7:53 ` Joel Reicher
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