Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)
On 2019-08-08, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>>
>> I think you are missing the point: When someone asks a question on this
>> list, then that someone gets to decide what the question is.
>
> Sure. But they also bear the burden of communicating precisely
> what it is that they are asking for, and accepting that some
> responses will offer advice rather than answers. Some of that
> advice is even valuable!
>
The questioner gets to decide what the question is, and the
answerer gets to decide what the answer is.
The former taken to facetious extremes is epitomized by you-know-who,
and the outer limit of the latter is occupied by the old-timer who
advises a person wanting to get printing working again in kmail (for
example) to just use Mutt.
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