How to ask a question
There is a page at Microsoft that might be very useful for anybody needing technical assistance. The title is “How to ask a question”. It is not quite the usual knowledge base article written in MicrosoftSpeak. I think you will find it quite interesting. Here is an excerpt
After posting a question to a professional forum or newsgroup and waiting for a while, you get the following answer(s) from the active forum/newsgroup members:
“Your question does not contain all the required information needed for us to help you.
Please re-write your question, this time make sure you have all the needed info and
we’ll try to help.”Another symptom of this error is getting the following answer:
“You question has been answered a hundred times. Please use a decent search engine
and/or search our archives before posting any future questions”
I found the reference in a newsletter from Steve Bass.
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I hate the way you keep scooping me 8-( I was planning to use this as my “Computer Article of the Week” on the web site next week. You and your darn blog!! I just can’t keep up.