* Bruce Marshall
I think you're right.... but it would be great if someone would come up with a short document (so it can be sent by email) that would describe the best way for a newbie to ask a question. Maybe that's all that's lacking.
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way by Eric Steven Raymond http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I know I get pretty pee'd when someone asks an out-of-the-blue question without providing a lick of information and then expects an answer. Maybe by replying (politely) to such questions with a paragraph or two of 'instructions on asking a question' would save a lot of flames and also some RTFM answers. And I think the newbies would appreciate it.
perhaps we can present the above url as an answer to deserving postings and /dev/null posts containing the url. That would keep our mailboxes from overflowing <grin>.
And we'll get Pat S. to add a paragraph about not top-posting and triming quotes and trimming sigs and...... (only partly kidding.)
I can handle it. Don't believe that I have ever been accused of having _thin_ skin <grin>. btw: The present version of the article indicated above is three years old and the present revision 3.1. I do not know the article's age, but I do know that it was available in 1997. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos