Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: fixup-cygwin@cygwin.com@fixme From: "Paul G." Organization: New Dawn Productions To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:26:19 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way" Reply-to: Paul Garceau Message-ID: <3B9E1F0B.9822.56530A@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010910184411.A18127@redhat.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v4.0, beta 40) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Excellent Article. Worthy of being added as a standard link in all mailing lists dealing with technical questions and answers. Paul G. On 10 Sep 2001 at 18:44, the Illustrious Christopher Faylor 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 > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/