Asking a question.

[Ray Scheel]

> On Monday, June 13, 2005 9:53 AM Tom Pancero said:
>    To the list & especially fairlite,
> 
> YOU STILL MISS THE POINT!
> 
> Lose the EGO and try a little humanity.

I'm another member of the younger crowd that still remembers the
firestorm when AOL users were unleashed on to Usenet without being
pointed first towards the basics of nettiquette and the bloodbath that
came immediatley after that.  

Ken's most recent comment hit the nail on the head, the cut to the point
responses here are the best attempt of the list to actually find out
help someone needs.  I've been reading the list long enough to notice
that new faces get cut a little slack the first few times, and the one
that are on the ball pick up pretty quick on how to format their
questions to get good answers quickly.  I don't post to the list often
with issues, but when I do I make sure all the details are in my first
post and I usually get the answer I'm looking for (or a good guess that
leads me there) in the first wave of responses.

The amount of tooth-pulling several semi-regulars impose on the list
when they ask for help is unjustifiable when there is no doubt they know
what is expected and refuse to provide the details apparently just to
stir the pot.  That is simply not a good strategy when you require
assistance from the very individuals you are attempting to rile up.
Those are the folks that need to drop their egos and start to play ball
the way the game works, because none of the rest of us are going to
magically become long-distance mind readers to be able to fill in the
details they are leaving out and deliberately refusing to share.


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