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Re: OT--How to ask aquestion, an example



Nathan E Norman wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:14:47PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
>> While Googlin' for a similar error I ran across this post.  It struck me
>> as a near perfect example of how to do it.  Interestingly, ESR, of
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html fame was the first
>> respondent :)
>
>Considering ESR wrote fetchmail, I don't think that's so interesting
>:-)

Yeah, ;P, but I was thinking of this from the essay:

	"The best way to get a rapid and responsive answer is to ask it like
a person with smarts, confidence, and clues who just happens to need
help on one particular problem."


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at least not that I can remember.



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