From: "Paul G." <pgarceau@qwest.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way"
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B9E1F0B.9822.56530A@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010910184411.A18127@redhat.com>
Excellent Article.
Worthy of being added as a standard link in all mailing lists dealing with technical questions and
answers.
Paul G.
On 10 Sep 2001 at 18:44, the Illustrious Christopher Faylor wrote:
> One of our regular cygwin mailing list contributors (and frequent 'agent
> provocatuer') has pointed me to a wonderful article written by Eric S.
> Raymond.
>
> It is entitled "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way" and it is here:
>
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> Here's the first paragraph:
>
> "In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical
> questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the
> difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to
> ask questions in a way that is likely to get you a satisfactory answer."
>
> If you have the time, this article is, IMO, well worth a read.
>
> If you don't have the time, and you still want to get questions answered
> by the hacker volunteers who man free software projects, then you really
> should make the time anyway and read this article.
>
> cgf
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-11 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-10 15:44 Christopher Faylor
2001-09-10 15:48 ` tplesco
2001-09-10 15:51 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-10 15:56 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-09-10 16:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-09-11 14:26 ` Paul G. [this message]
2001-09-11 14:37 ` Christopher Faylor
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