Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/08/20/07:30:17
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Ian Stevenson wrote:
>
>hubble AT hem DOT passagen DOT se wrote :
>
>>One day ago i posted a simple question about the 4byte large ints 32-bits
>>compiler have.. and i got 11 answers,
>>all of them saying mostly exactly the same things.. I think this is very
>>annoying and unnecessary, couldn't you guys
>>read what other people have answered before you post the same things?
>>
>>/Andreas Vernersson
>>
To Andreas:
Is it so hard to tap your DEL key to remove all the "redundant" messages (are
there any?)? There are newsgroups you'd wait for your answer for ages (or
longer) and when you finally got it, it'd be something saying "Get off our
backs, we are GURUs!" - how do you like that?
I don't wanna offend you, but what you're writing is just not fair! I suspect
that there are people reading this newsgroup that, after your comment, won't
ever answer to any of your postings. And remember that the one you asked was
simple. It was of the kind we all (well, 99%) here know answer to. Now, think
what's gonna be when you'll be willing to get an answer to something more
complicated, huh?
General:
>There is quite a delay for many of us on the list between an article being
>posted by its author, and it appearing at our systems. What happens is that
>people receive your mail, and respond to it, before they receive the
>responses from others.
And that holds true even for the mailing list. I sometimes get the postings
from five days back. And that's normal.
>
>Personally I am grateful for any and all of the assistance I have received
>here, and often I find that if a number of posts say the same thing
>
>1) It makes me more confident in the correctness of the response
>
>2) They are often subtly different and reading them all can lead to a clearer
> understanding of the problem.
That's right. Even a posting that contains just one phrase pointing out
something not mentioned in others is worth keeping it on your HD!
Greetings, Mark
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