In message <CABbxVHuY3SB4x9LFsB9ubJuA_jc5ioqwS9=w=umwte9-ebz...@mail.gmail.com> , Chris Albertson writes:
>The way around that trick is to be firm. Make a policy of ONLY >answering questions there the person states what he has already tried >and where he has looked and then say you will only post links to >answers. I actually have an even more draconian policy, but for reasons which would be obvious if I disclosed it, I cannot disclose it :-) Yes, it is sort of security through obscurity, but I have a pretty high volume to filter out. For instance every other semester I still get a deluge of emails from Japan because a CS professor assigns some pretty nasty homework in some of my Open Source code[1] My large-scale reaction to the volume of feedback, has been to make the code I release less accessible, but still available. For instance I very seldom, if ever, write a usable HOWTO or even README file anymore. Usually I don't do any "publicity" unless I come across people who specifically ask for covered functionality, and give the impression that they can cope with the learning-curve. Yes, it's not the good and helpful neighbor I would love to be, but there is so much code to hack, and only so little time... But take it from me: It's still a good idea to make your projects available, because every so often, you'll make a new friend who is worth all the trouble. Poul-Henning [1] I've communicated with the professor, and we hashed out a scheme where I return a canned reply which goes "That was covered in the lecture last week, right after the professor told the joke about ..." Any student who is stupid enough to ask a TA or God forbid the Professor about the joke they missed, will get what they deserve. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
