Re: "How to Ask Questions The Smart Way"

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:49:41PM -0700, tplesco wrote:
>So do you think we should read Eric Raymond's article?
>
>(just kidding!)

Hah.  Humor!  Hackers like humor!  It says so right in the article.  :-)

cgf

>On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:44:11PM -0400, 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.

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