Annual Reminder: How To Ask For Help

[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/26/2011 2:54 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
[...]
> The first is from Eric Raymond and Rick Moen:
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> It's called "How to ask questions the Smart Way", and it explains, in short,

Yup, I've seen that referenced numerous times in numerous venues.

[...]
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
>
> This one is called "How to report bugs effectively", and it's by Simon
> Tatham whom some of you will recognize -- all right, all right; let's not
> always see the same hands -- as the author of the PuTTY terminal emulator.

Can't say I've seen that one before, but it's full of useful information.

However, the author probably doesn't watch TV, or else he'd know that they 
now have advertisements that end with "ask you doctor if Hydroyoyodyne is 
right for you".  :-)

[...]

-- 
Kenneth Brody