Subject: Re: [xsl] qualitative decline of xsl-list questions From: "B. Tommie Usdin" <btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:55:21 -0500 |
While I do understand the impulse to grump at people who seem to be asking lazy questions on XSL-List I'd like to suggest that we take a calm approach to them. Some of the flailing beginners we help out become experts helping others in an astonishingly short time. I do have a form letter that I send to people who seem to be asking questions without doing any homework (or without telling us about it when they ask). I send it off-list, mostly to avoid embarrassing the person, and partially so that you aren't all pestered with the note every time I send it. I suggest that when someone asks a "please do my thinking for me" or "I haven't a clue" type question that list members: - provide a short helpful answer and point the requester to a good book or class; or - send an off-list message to me asking me to send the "dumb question" message; or - simply refrain from responding. I'll send my "How to get good answers from XSL-List message to them. Thanks. -- Tommie -- ====================================================================== B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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