XPost: comp.os.linux.development.system
In comp.os.linux.development.system Grant Edwards wrote:
| On 2009-01-29, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
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|> I did not ask this question in order to get a bunch of answers
|> to other questions people presumed that I should have asked,
|> based on the (false) assumption I have never [...]
|
| On Usenet you don't get to decide what questions people answer.
| Asking question A often results in somebody answering question
| B or C. If you want to be able to restrict people to answering
| exactly the question you ask, then you'll have hire somebody an
| only pay them to talk about what you want them to talk about.
It used to not be that way. But it has been that way for quite a number of
years. What I can say is I definitely try to avoid answering questions that
were not asked. But that could be due to not spending a lot of time on here
answering questions.
Perhaps I should just ignore the answers to other questions, whether they are
directed to me or not.
|> What does it take in Usenet to get people to either answer the
|> question that was asked or to now answer at all, but in
|> particular to not make presumptions and certainly not make up
|> other questions?
|
| Generally it takes a carefully phrased question with a bit of
| background that explains what you're trying to accomplish and
| why you're asking A instead of B, C or D and an indication that
| yes, you had already thought of and tried E, F, and G and they
| didn't work because of H, I and J.
And why should it take that?
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