On 17/04/2008, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you stop and think about it, when a question is posed, it is like > saying to 200 (or more) subscribers: "Hey, here is something that is > giving me trouble -- does anyone know the answer, or where to find the > answer?" > > Asking a lot of people to voluntarily give attention to one problem, and > actually getting attention has always seemed amazing to me. It's an > especially precious resource, and I try to remind myself not to impose > on others without trying to find the easy answers myself -- well most of > the time I remember. ;-)
The reason it works is that it's a community. In general, people offer their expertise because they have received help in the past (or they hope to receive help in the future). Sort of like a P2P knowledge-sharing network, but nobody keeps track of your Share Ratio... -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771-1845) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
