On 19/08/2011 1:41 PM, Junior Nebeker wrote:
Correct. Other people (who are new to this list) need your help, and
unless their requests are way out of line, there's no reason to adopt
a haughty attitude in responding.
There's never a case for rudeness, but when (for example) people have
been asking questions on the mailing list for years and still haven't
absorbed the advice available here http://www.gromacs.org/Support, then
one can get frustrated. Expressing a little of that can help people
realise how to participate more effectively in the discussion. One's
family doctor can ask a lot of patient questions about what is wrong
because you're paying them a lot of money. If people who might give free
help don't feel that their time is valued, they might stop giving it.
One way of demonstrating this is to ask questions that show one's
willingness to work on the problem by providing lots of relevant
diagnostic information. See
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Mark
P.S. I'm not intending to express particular criticism of the original
poster in this thread
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Mark Abraham <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 19/08/2011 9:32 AM, Junior Nebeker wrote:
Hey mark,
If you are really sick of asking people for such information,
why do you even care to respond to this mailing list?
Because I'd rather teach someone to fish than either give them
fish or watch them starve.
Mark
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