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[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 17:35, Mark Haney wrote:
> Ulin the Tech Mage wrote:
> > Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> Nay Myo Win wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Nay Myo Win <rim.riaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> help me please!!
> >>
> >> I would suggest that you ask better questions.  Most people will just
> >> ignore
> >> a message that says nothing more than "help me please" - especially with
> >> multiple exclamations.
> >>
> >> And if you don't get a response after 4 days, you should probably
> >> assume you
> >> didn't ask a very good question.
> >
> > remember guys that the panick threshold is lower for newbies. it takes
> > them a while to mature to where you are mentally. we need to be more
> > nurturing towards them
>
> I agree with some of that.  However, 'help me' doesn't /begin/ to cover
> what may or may not be the problem.  How many times have we been asked
> 'what's wrong?' and get back 'it don't work'?
>
> Surely, even the n00bs should know the minimum requirements for asking a
> question about a problem.  I mean, Derek has quite a valid point.  We
> don't KNOW what the problem is becuase we don't know /anything/ about
> his setup and what he's tried.

> Mark Haney

I believe this comes down to a serious communication problem that people have 
today. If you are speaking face to face with someone, you can say, "Can you 
help me?", and get an instant response of, perhaps, "What's the problem?", 
and so on. The same goes for IM, or IRC, but perhaps "Can you help me?" on an 
IRC channel would get some choice replies.

When we send to a mailing list, it's a bit like writing a letter (snail mail), 
and I believe that most folks have forgotten how to write letters. You would 
not send a letter to someone which only contained the words "Can you help 
me?" would you. You'd send the letter, and sometime later would receive a 
reply saying "What's the problem?". You then reply saying "It doesn't work 
anymore", and some days later get a reply saying, "What doesn't work 
anymore?" . Sounds a bit like what we get on mailing lists eh?

I don't know if this is down to how folks are educated these days, but many 
don't seem to be able to construct a written question, giving as much 
information as possible in the hope of getting a reply that would resolve a 
problem.

I often have problems with creating a subject line when faced with some 
problem or other. Setting 7, or 8 words as a subject line for some complex 
problem is not easy, and oftentimes it takes some 20, or 30 minutes to create 
a subject line that may get some response from someone on a list.

Enough Tuesday evening rambling.

Nigel.