Xref: utzoo comp.misc:2527 comp.unix.questions:7423 comp.unix.xenix:2398 comp.sys.ibm.pc:16156 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Questions without answers Message-ID: <1718@looking.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 18:12:24 GMT References: <50@uisc1.UUCP> <11967@ut-sally.UUCP> Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 28 You guys are missing the whole point. You are SUPPOSED TO ANSWER WITH E-MAIL. Only in rare, very rare cases is it appropriate to post an answer to a query. Even if the person says, "Please post your response to the net" You are supposed to answer with E-mail. The poster made a mistake and was supposed to request answers by E-mail. Otherwise when somebody asks a moderatedly easy question, we get 20 responses posted to the net. Even if you can't E-mail the guy, you should still not post, unless you are very sure that yours is going to be the only answer, because the question is technical and in your field of expertise. If it's a regular question and your mail doesn't make it, somebody else's will. If a person asks a question, it is their duty to collect the duplicate answers, and post the best one back. (Not a collection of the answers, but a summary.) If you want to encourage that, when you see a question you would like to hear the answer to, send mail to the asker requesting that he or she send the answer back to you, or post it. If people follow these guidelines, we get a much cleaner net. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473