Please remember your statement the next time you ask for assistance from your fellow man; I can only hope that I am that man.
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 14:04, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Jared Still wrote: > > Based on the following paragraph, you obviously don't understand > > what is needed when asking people to help you with a script problem. > > > > > >>Moreover, I have also noticed on many occasions where the end user would > >>post a question or concern about some segment of their script and would > >>post the entire script, they were chastised for including the entire > >>script, rather than only the offending snippet. Yet, when the end user > >>includes a small snippet, and attempts to remove those instructions that > >>clearly do not effect the issue at hand, they are chastised for that as > >>well. > > > > Posting the entire script is often useless, due to the fact that there > > is too much extraneous material there for anyone to easily help you > > with the problem. > > > > No doubt most everyone on this list *could* do it, but why should we? > > > > It takes too much time. > > > > Offering just a snippet of the code is often just as useless, there's > > no context, not enough of the script is available to determine what > > has happened up to that point. > > > > It falls upon the poster ( that would be you ) to create a concise > > script that demonstrates the problem you are having, without > > all of the clutter that is ineherently included when trying to solve > > a business problem. > > > > Doing so, it is often revealed what the problem really is, and you > > won't even need to ask for help. > > > > Cutting and pasting 100 lines of code into an email is a signal to > > me that the poster has not done any or enough homework. > > > > Personally, why I see a lengthy script in a plea for help, I just move on > > to the next message. It's terribly naive of someone to expect volunteers > > to sort out their entire programming effort. > > > > Kudos to those on the list that do respond, I guess I don't have the > > patience to do 90% of someone else's work for them. > > > Hear, hear. Your observations are directly to the point. And Tim > gave a relevant URL recently, too: > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > I last looked at it a year or so ago -- it's improved since then and > is worth a revisit. > > > > > -- > Jonathan Leffler ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > #include <disclaimer.h> > Guardian of DBD::Informix 1.00.PC2 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ >
