Hi, Quoting Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is the essence of the whole issue. The bottom line is, Carol, or > anyone else for that matter, deserved a real answer.
This is a misconception. People do not *deserve* answers to whatever question they choose to ask. There are good ways and bad ways to ask a question. The good ways involve a minimum of (1) asking the right person (2) in a way that won't piss them off (3) and waiting for the answer, and (4) reformulating your question if for some reason you're not happy with it (the answer). There's a whole essay that ESR wrote on this called "Asking smart questions" - a lot of the time I disagree with ESR, but many of the points in this essay are spot on. One of the big no-nos in asking smart questions is not to feel that you have a sense of entitlement. This is, of course, not specifically directed at this thread (thus the topic change), but is a general remark to people who feel they deserve any type of answers to questions they ask. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary Lyon, France _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
