The below defines it nicely, thank you :-) Bruce
Lea de Groot wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:03:51 -0500, Bruce wrote:
As a new member this leaves me in a position of being hesitant to post, not wanting to bother anyone. So far I have liked the group, and both am interested in viewing the sites posted such as this one, and learn from it all.
I am the type though, not to want to "bother anyone", in which case I am hesitant to post anything at all...?
I'd hate to think that I am discouraging people from posting! :(
I do think it is important to bear in mind that 1000 people are reading this, and the list does tend to be high volume at times.
So, for myself, before I post I try to answer the following questions:
- is my query on topic?
- have I exhausted all my options in figuring this out on my own? This includes googling for the answer, having a good try and leaving it for a bit to see if that aha! moment will strike.
If the answer to both is yes, then I post it.
(I don't claim to be perfect! :))
In your case, if you'd never heard of browsercam, or anything similar, then you had, indeed, exhausted your options - how can you check on windows without a windows box? But now someone else who might have asked a similar request next week might have a quicker and simpler recourse There's an old parable about teaching a man to fish. :)
Sometimes I write up a post and the process of phrasing it clearly answers it for me and I don't need to post after all - the writing of the question was enough.
And some questions are valuable in their own right for the discussion they engender. Hard to pick in advance, though. ;)
Don't be discouraged from posting, but do make a definite decision that it needs posting, and is in the right place :)
Posting to a mailing list shouldn't be your *first* port of call with a problem.
HIH
Lea
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