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Re: "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way"
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- Subject: Re: "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way"
- From: "Paul G." <pgarceau at qwest dot net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:26:19 -0800
- Organization: New Dawn Productions
- Reply-to: Paul Garceau <pgarceau at qwest dot net>
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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