> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > [snip] > > A little friendly persuasion to people who post questions > that a simple search would answer wouldn't go amiss either imho. I couldn't agree more with Paul's remark. Personally, I don't really care about the number of emails I get every day, or answering questions that wouldn't have been necessary if the asker had opened a book or read a website (although mostly I tend to ignore these). My problem with this is that you don't learn anything by asking "newbie" questions. You learn by sinking your teeth in Java or JSPs or whatever, and saving lists like this one for when you're completely lost after hacking away at a problem for 6 hours straight. Personally, I think it's a shame that so many people deprive themselves the opportunity to learn so much more by using this list as a first rather than as a last resort. If you're a total newbie, get a 21 Days book. If you're a little more advanced than that, try to find your answers in API documentation, FAQs, previous postings, etc etc etc. If you won't put in the effort to solve the problem yourself, how can you even think about asking time out of somebody else's day to help you? If you have a question, try to answer it yourself first. If that doesn't work, ask it on here. Be specific and complete in providing information, and specify what you've tried already, so whoever ends up helping you doesn't have to go down the same path to find out that particular path doesn't lead to a solution (it also shows prior effort on your part). sorry for this rather long posting, just had to get my $.02 in cheers Rob =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
