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Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Internet Explorer / March 2008How to ask a question
How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm > How to ask a question > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm > http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm Question: do we have some guidance on how not to pointlessly reply to your own post six minutes after the original? And perhaps on how to avoid massive crosspostings? You probably know this and are just giving a hard time but that appears to be his signature block from observing his other posts. it's reasonable to assume he inadvertently sent a message without a body explaining his subject which also coincidentally contains the same subject matter as his subject of he post. his similar reply to the post is questionable though. however, I took it as an overall implied post. He is apparently overwhelmed by what he thinks are bad posts. Now my question is, if we are willing to blame education on the faulty posts, how does one get this guidance, besides Mr Bob posting these every once in a while, before posting to these forums if we find this forum attached to our windows mail and activate the news groups and start watching/reading them like spam mail/chat mail? >> How to ask a question >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > own post six minutes after the original? And perhaps on how to avoid > massive crosspostings? "...how does one get this guidance, besides Mr Bob posting these every once in a while..." It's really no different from, say, joining a conversation at a party. You listen in for a while to get a sense of the conversation before entering it yourself. In a newsgroup this is called 'lurking'. Lurking is a tradition as old as newsgroups themselves. It means to follow a few days or weeks worth of posts to get a sense of what topics are being and have been discussed, the tenor of the conversation and, in general, what are the customs and conventions of the group. Then you make your first post. If more people would spend the time to do this there would be 1) much fewer posts, since most are asking the same questions over and over, and 2) fewer problems within the newsgroup, since users would understand how the group works and how to use it to best advantage. Newsgroups are of limited usefulness when it comes to answering questions. Some people have difficulty forming a coherent question (and they probably have the same problem outside a newsgroup too.) Many people lack the technical vocabulary to describe their problem accurately - you can hardly blame them. And there's only so much that can be achieved by writing back and forth. I see many people here who would be much better off in showing their computer to a professional. Finally, it seems that many posters don't understand the dynamics of a newsgroup, which are defined by the NNTP protocol. They expect to receive a complete and accurate answer in real time. Or they expect us to remember what they or someone else wrote in some earlier post, or what the post 'three lines above' is. There isn't much you can do for people like that. A web search is usually a better way to find the information needed to solve a problem. Many people don't know how to find information on the web, or they're too lazy to make the effort, so they post here instead. And they expect their fellow users who volunteer their time to understand their question and provide a detailed explanation almost immediately. For free. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est > You probably know this and are just giving a hard time but that appears > to be his signature block from observing his other posts. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> your own post six minutes after the original? And perhaps on how to >> avoid massive crosspostings? Now this is good mentorship advise/explanation. Thank you! To help with your "...There isn't much you can do for people like that." as I do what you explained not to do in regards to remembering three lines/posts before, refer them to a chat room as they are treating this as one and not a research library if you will. As far as searching the web for a solution, that was the only way I knew how to find solutions until I stumbled upon my windows mail Microsoft communities. Nothing like hard work to correct something. It makes you feel that much more proud of the result too. > "...how does one get this guidance, besides Mr Bob posting these every > once in a while..." [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] >>> your own post six minutes after the original? And perhaps on how to >>> avoid massive crosspostings? Leonard, could you email me outside this? I have something to advise you in regards to how your posts are causing replys to error. thanks! > "...how does one get this guidance, besides Mr Bob posting these every > once in a while..." [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] >>> your own post six minutes after the original? And perhaps on how to >>> avoid massive crosspostings? Sorry, I do not email. If you're having a problem with your newsreader software, you have the software's technical support. If you're using some other mechanism to read news, I can't help you. Newsgroups follow the NNTP protocol - they weren't designed to work another way. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est > Leonard, > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] >>>> to your own post six minutes after the original? And perhaps on how >>>> to avoid massive crosspostings? |
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