Asking Smart Questions - NO SOUP FOR YOU!

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting R. Murphey (Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:36:22 -0500):
>
>> This discussion reminds me of a Seinfeld episode...
>[... "Soup Nazi" episode ...]
>
>Please read the article posted here the other day:
>
>    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>It really is "substance over style".  Unless your style is so poor
>that it looks like it should be written in crayon, or that you're
>a l33t script kiddie hax0r, style is mostly irrelevent.
>
>Note that it's *smart* questions, not "double-spaced, 1 inch margins,
>12-point Times Roman" questions.

While we're on the subject, proper Subject: in the message is
very helpful as well.  The Subject: should be short, but contain
useful information to help people decide whether to look at the
message.  I don't even bother looking at messages with Subject:
headers that say only ``HELP!''.

Bill
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