Re: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

[Adam Fabian <awfabian@gmail.com>]

>From "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (which you would do well to
read in its entirety at
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ):

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum :

Be sensitive in choosing where you ask your question. You are likely
to be ignored, or written off as a loser, if you [snip]: post your
question to a forum where it's off topic

[snip]

Hackers blow off questions that are inappropriately targeted in order
to try to protect their communications channels from being drowned in
irrelevance. You don't want this to happen to you.