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Re: "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way"
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- Subject: Re: "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way"
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:57:03 -0400
Bravo! This one got a bookmark from me so I can point folks to it in the
future! :-)
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
At 06:44 PM 9/10/2001, you wrote:
>One of our regular cygwin mailing list contributors (and frequent 'agent
>provocatuer') has pointed me to a wonderful article written by Eric S.
>Raymond.
>
>It is entitled "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way" and it is here:
>
>http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>Here's the first paragraph:
>
>"In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical
>questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the
>difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to
>ask questions in a way that is likely to get you a satisfactory answer."
>
>If you have the time, this article is, IMO, well worth a read.
>
>If you don't have the time, and you still want to get questions answered
>by the hacker volunteers who man free software projects, then you really
>should make the time anyway and read this article.
>
>cgf
>
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