[ic] ESR: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

[Jim Balcom]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Dan Browning wrote:

DB>>I enjoyed Eric's most recent FAQ, "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way".  It
DB>>would be extremely beneficial if every poster on the Internet (including
DB>>interchange-users) were to read this and put it into practice.  Yet, I
DB>>somehow think that those who need it most will be most unlikely to read it;
DB>>and those that do read will be most likely to already know it.

That is absolutely tremendous! Now I know that many of the things that
irritate me privately are generally irritating! (I was taking them
personally!)

I wish that he would have defined 'hacker'. In my book, he is using it
exactly correctly. But, the term has gotten ripped off and made into
something evil - which isn't fair.

And, finally, I wish that he would have included a portion on quoting, but
that may well be outside of the scope of that particular FAQ.

I would like to see this, as well as a Quoting FAQ published on this list on
a weekly basis. (These messages that say nothing more than "Me too" (or
something similar) are meaningless and irritating - at least to me!)

Thanks for posting it! Let's do it again sometime!


-= Jim =-

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