META: How To Ask Questions On Mailing Lists

I'd like to remind everyone of -- and encourage you to read, if you haven't lately -- my two favorite essays on how to get help from the Internet: The first is "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" by Eric Raymond and Rick Moen: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and the second is PuTTY author Simon Tatham's "How To Report Bugs Effectively": http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html The short version is: people on the Internet help you for free. Remember that, and do your homework first, so that they don't make fun of you for sport instead. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
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