On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Yamijala, Kalyan wrote:
> I absolutely agree with you guys!! Active and advanced users like
> you will obviously feel frustrated. But most users don't care to
> read the policies when they join the user groups. And more
> importantly most users "do not realize" that the questions they put
> through are not meant to be asked here.
Sounds like you're saying that "most users" are lazy (and hence, by
extension, selfish and inconsiderate). If that's the case, I don't
really care what they think. (I don't necessarily think that's the
case, but there are some that are.)
> The point I was trying to make was that the "tone" of emails
> discouraging users from sending mails doesn't sound good. Some
> comments sound like admonishment rather than discouragement. And
> these comments invite unnecessary mails like the one that came as a
> reply to Srini's.
>
> Why am I concerned? I am new to the group and servlets, and however
> careful I may be, I may stumble across questions that I do not
> realize are off topic, basic or even "stupid". And I wouldn't feel
> comfortable seeing replies that sound like "get the hell outta
> here".
[ ... ]
I think you may be overly concerned -- I think what people are really
asking is that you think about whether your question is appropriate (a
little common sense and experience comes in handy there) and make some
effort to seek out the answer first on your own. If you give some
indication that you've done that, I don't think people will hassle you.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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