Xref: utzoo comp.misc:2526 comp.unix.questions:7422 comp.unix.xenix:2396 comp.sys.ibm.pc:16154 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!pyrdc!netxcom!ewiles From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Questions without answers Message-ID: <851@netxcom.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 88 16:56:11 GMT References: <50@uisc1.UUCP> Reply-To: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA Lines: 32 In article <50@uisc1.UUCP> root@uisc1.UUCP (Super user) writes: > >The trend is to ask a question, and then to finish it by saying "Please >reply to E-mail/private mail as I am too busy to keep up with this >conference/newsgroup." > >What's the result? Well, the result is a newsgroup in which you have lots >and lots of questions, and no answers. The result is also that people >stop reading the newsgroup, as nobody is really terribly interested in >the questions. It's the answers and the advice people are reading it for. It often depends on the nature of the question. I had a question for comp.sys.amiga, regarding why a certain example program wouldn't work. I asked for EMAIL responses because I figured that the problem was something simple that I just didn't know about. I also stated that if there were enough requests, I would sumarize the information I received to the network. The nice thing about doing it this way is that you don't flood the newsgroup with a dozen identical responses to a simple question. If it turns out that it's not an obvious solution/problem, then the replier can opt to both post it *and* mail a response. >Comments and Feedback encouraged, publicly to this newsgroup. Ordinarily I would have mailed this reply to you, but you asked for it publicly so here it is. -- ...!hadron\ "Who?... Me?... WHAT opinions?!?" | Edwin Wiles ...!sundc\ Schedule: (n.) An ever changing | NetExpress Comm., Inc. ...!pyrdc\ nightmare. | 1953 Gallows Rd. Suite 300 ...!uunet!netxcom!ewiles | Vienna, VA 22180