There's a big difference between a lazy question and an easy one. If someone indicates that they've made some effort to find the answer but could not then I'd be inclined to help. Even if I consider it a totally basic question (with my whole 6 months Struts experience:-).
The questions that really hacks me off are the "I NEED HELP - here is all the src for my application. Please debug it for me." kind. I may start replying with a quote from the ESR page: Before asking a technical question by email, or in a newsgroup, or on a website chat board, do the following: 1.Try to find an answer by searching the Web. 2.Try to find an answer by reading the manual. 3.Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ. 4.Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation. 5.Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend. 6.You *are* a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source code. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Carl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 November 2003 16:34 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Lazy questions on this list What is certain is that this mailibng list is an active one ! I think the lazy issue is common one for all mailing list. I'm myself quite new to struts and I had many questions in the begining. Even with the ducumentation effort on the Struts project, I found some difficulties to find the solutions quickly. In those curcumstance, some people find more easy to sent help email on the list instead of trying to understand their pb by themself. And if the only response they can receive from users mailing-list is a http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I don't think that we achieve the gaol of such mailing-list. By the way, this activity show that more and more people are using Struts and that's a great news for an open source project. Maybe a warning notice on the mail subscrubtion confiration could reduce lazy requests... Carl Paul McCulloch wrote: > Is it my imagination or are the number of downright lazy requests to this > list getting worse? > > If the only replies any lazy questions ever got was > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html then maybe people would > get the point. Has anyone got any other ideas about how we can reduce the > amount of lazy and totally off-topic posts to the list? > > > Paul > > > > ************************************** > Axios Email Confidentiality Footer > Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message, and notify us immediately. If you or your employer does not consent to Internet email messages of this kind, please advise us immediately. Opinions, conclusions and other information expressed in this message are not given or endorsed by my Company or employer unless otherwise indicated by an authorised representative independent of this message. > WARNING: > While Axios Systems Ltd takes steps to prevent computer viruses from being transmitted via electronic mail attachments we cannot guarantee that attachments do not contain computer virus code. You are therefore strongly advised to undertake anti virus checks prior to accessing the attachment to this electronic mail. Axios Systems Ltd grants no warranties regarding performance use or quality of any attachment and undertakes no liability for loss or damage howsoever caused. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
