[tlinux-users:07548] Re: Network on Portege 7020CT [Netiquette on a ML]

* Manuel López-Ibáñez <[email protected]> [2005-12-09 13:17:54 +0000]:

> Fred Thiele wrote:
> >* Manuel López-Ibáñez <[email protected]> [2005-12-09 09:15:09 
> >+0000]:
> >
> >>[..] He may have [..]
> >>What I really 
> >>meant is that with so little information is practically impossible to 
> >>know what is the problem (if there is any problem at all). [..] 
>
> >It's interesting how much you care about someone, who isn't able to
> >answer simple counter questions. "He may have", "He probably runs" is
> >highly speculative [..]
>
> Yeah, I know. But perhaps he doesn't know how to ask questions properly. 
> It is something that can be learned with good will.

Good morging Manuel & the others,

if he doesn't know he should try to learn really how to behave on a
mailing list and should do this first. As I am not running this ml but
beeing sure that some standard rules of netiquette have to be considered
also hereon i post some links concerning this:

* Read about what the term "netiquette" means at
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

* Read the informational RFC "netiquette guidelines" at
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

* See some email concerning rules (with examples) at
    http://www.iwillfollow.com/email.htm

* and/or visit the various sites that you will find if you do a search
  with your favourite search engine on terms like "netiquette", "network
  etiquette", and so on...

> However, the worst thing that a person can do is to find the answer and 
> just forget that people were trying to help him and never come back and 
> never say anything else. That is definitely wrong and egoistic.

I fully agree. I find it truly annoying if I do a group search on a
certain, say compilation problem with some program, and find someone
posting exact my problem and some other guy answering him with some
suggestion and then no reply on the suggestion follows. Often, if the
problem is non-trivial and you don't understand the suggested solution
immediatly it would help a lot if the questioner would leave a message
if the suggestion had worked or not. In forums there is appended a
"SOLVED" tag in the subject line. This can work on a mailing too, i
think.

-- 
Best regards,

Fred Thiele                    GnuPG-Key: 0x4F6BE238 <[email protected]>

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