Will fix. On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Rick Moen wrote:
> I realise it's difficult to discern legitimate mail from spam, etc. > arriving at webmaster aliases, but this request has been fallen through > the cracks for more a month, and I'd appreciate some help on it. > > ----- Forwarded message from rick ----- > > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:50:42 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Link to my and ESR's "Asking Smart Questions" page > > Hi there! I'm trying to reach the editor of the > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html page, which links to "How To > Ask Questions The Smart Way", > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . > > Your page says: > > Ask smart questions. > Every volunteer project obtains its strength from the people involved > in it. You are welcome to join any of our mailing lists. You can > choose to lurk, or actively participate; it's up to you. The level of > community responsiveness to specific questions is generally directly > proportional to the amount of effort you spend formulating your > question. Eric Raymond has even written an essay entitled "Asking > Smart Questions" [link] precisely on this topic. Although somewhat > militant, it is definitely worth reading. > > Two things: > > (1) As you'll see if you take a closer look, it's actually co-written by > Eric _and me_. I'd appreciate your fixing that. > > (2) Since you guys posted the above text, probably some time in 2001, > both Eric and I have been barraged with e-mail by novice Java coders, > asking us to help them debug their code or solve their Java technical > problems. I've been trying for two years to chase down where all these > Java-heads got the addled notion to write _us_, and I _think_ the > proximate cause is the aforementioned hyperlink. > > Eric at least knows some Java, while I know very little, but neither of > us appreciates having utter strangers (essentially) try to lob their > homework at us. (And, no offence intended, but I don't even _like_ > Java.) Their doing so isn't your fault, but it would be really nice if > you would add something like: > > Note: Do NOT send your Java problems to that FAQ's authors. > They welcome feedback on the FAQ's contents, but are simply > not a Java help resource. > > The crowning irony is that one of our FAQ's very first sections is: > > When You Ask > Choose your forum carefully > > -- > Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, > Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated, cooperatively-managed, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] modern-American-English-usage-improvement association. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
