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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 17:56:02 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Gokhan Kisacikoglu <kisacik AT earthlink DOT net>
CC: "\"Gerrit P. Haase\"" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: few more questions
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Kisa,

You really should be more careful.  Gerrit's private email address is not
"cygwin AT cygwin DOT com".  He has set his reply-to address to the list, because
he wants ALL cygwin related communication -- even that directed at him --
to go thru the list.


 > I would appreciate if you can answer even to few of these and do you
 > think it is worth sending this message to the cygwin list?

Too late. :-)

You need to read this:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

specifically, this part:

 > Any question that's good enough to be asked of one developer will also
 > be of value to the whole group. Contrariwise, if you think that your
 > question is too dumb for a mailing list, it's not an excuse to harass
 > individual developers.

Ya know, I just rescanned ESR's smart-questions document, and he left out 
one thing:

"Don't post multiple questions in a single message, unless they are 
intrinsically and tightly related.  By doing so, your subject line no 
longer specifically describes the contents of the message, unless you use 
generic and nondescriptive subject lines like "A few more questions" or 
"Multiple questions about Linux".  This reduces the likelihood that anyone 
will bother reading your message, much less answer it -- remember, hackers 
are generally allergic to what they percieve as open-ended time sinks.  It 
also reduces the likelihood that anyone other than you will benefit from 
the answers -- since the content is hidden behind a non-deswcriptive 
subject.  This again lowers the incentive for anyone to answer your query."

--Chuck


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