Thank you all for your responses. They led me to a founded criteria on posting behavior, one about which i was quite unsure before.
@Stephan Eggermont I will always provide feedback. And try my best to format it. @stepharo >because this is a challenge to answer questions and a really good way to learn Interesting point, i haven't thought about. @ben >My favourite reference is Eric S Raymond's "How To Ask Smart Questions". http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. I like people who doesn't consider the basic to be trivial. @Hilaire >it is useful to write an answer to your problem on the mailing list: the >problem you met was or will be a problem for other, so it is a nice, simple and effective way to contribute. Should one embrace the policy of each time one gets a question answered or a problem solved on the list, make a self answering post on Stack Overflow to render it readably available to others and also as a practical display of gratitude? If the question gets closed it won't be matter (or just a little) Best, Laura On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Hilaire <hila...@drgeo.eu> wrote: > Le 17/01/2015 00:48, Laura Risani a écrit : > > It doesn't kind of feel right saying nothing when someone gives me a > > rather lengthly answer, unless it was the tacit agreement. > > > > So i'm facing questions whether or not to make a post, because i'm not > > sure which are the right/usual manners for this particular mail-list > > form of communication. > > > > One can guess the right manner is the same manner you will use in real > life: if you get help from a problem, you just say thank you. > > In the other hand, if you find yourself the answer to your problem, it > is useful to write an answer to your problem on the mailing list: the > problem you met was or will be a problem for other, so it is a nice, > simple and effective way to contribute. > > Hilaire > > -- > Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu > iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu > > >
