On 2019-08-08, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: >> >> I think you are missing the point: When someone asks a question on this >> list, then that someone gets to decide what the question is. > > Sure. But they also bear the burden of communicating precisely > what it is that they are asking for, and accepting that some > responses will offer advice rather than answers. Some of that > advice is even valuable! >
The questioner gets to decide what the question is, and the answerer gets to decide what the answer is. The former taken to facetious extremes is epitomized by you-know-who, and the outer limit of the latter is occupied by the old-timer who advises a person wanting to get printing working again in kmail (for example) to just use Mutt. -- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan