Annual Reminder: How To Ask For Help

[Jay Ashworth]

I wrote: 
> In short, if you expect us to help you, we expect you to do at least a
> *little* of the legwork yourself -- including being able to state the
> problem clearly, being able to answer simple questions before going
> off on a tangent, and being nice.

And there's another point I missed, well covered here by Russ Allbery, who
wrote (among other things) INN, the NNTP package that moves most of what's
left of Usenet these days:

Why you should ask questions in public

  http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html

I will add "and report back with your results.

The short version is "because it makes the archives more useful to people
who are trying to Ask Smart Questions", but it's worth reading the whole 
piece.

Cheers,
-- jra
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