Re: WMP video files
- From: "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:36:42 GMT
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:56:23 +0100, Sebastian Gottschalk
<seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:51:59 +0100, Sebastian Gottschalk
>> <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Vika wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please help!
>>
>> Please ignore the response from Sebastian below, his etiquette is
>> mostly non-existent.
>>
>>>You because you ask for it? If we would do so, then pretty soon everyone
>>>would call around "Please help" just to get some attention.
>>
>> That's the normal purpose of newsgroups these days - peer support.
>
>No, the normal purpose is _discussion_, not support.
Incorrect. The microsoft.bla stub of newsgroups is intended for peer
support. Go, hang out on the xml newsgroup for a bit and ask a
question you don't know the answer to. You will get first class peer
support rather than a flaming. Try it, you might like it.
>Anyway, there is no need to explicitely search for attention with "please
>help" or "very important" where in fact it doesn't differ from any other
>simple question.
It's perfectly reasonable to do so in a posting body
[Ref : http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#bespecific]
You're confusing your very slender understanding of newsgroup
etiquette with posting a "Help Me!!!!!" as a subject line, which is
uninformative and generally correctly elicits the sort of reply you
posted.
>> Calling people 'stupid' for asking basic support
>> questions is pointless and counterproductive, so leave it out.
>
>#echo {{'grep -f "stupid" news:3j53qf8svplw.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'==''}}
>true
>#
>
>Hm... must have left something out. I guess now you're also blaming me for
>ridicolous asking for eMail-only answers.
No, that's lame - but everybody has to start somewhere - or were you
born having the fount of all knowledge regarding newsgroup etiquette ?
[Ref : http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate]
Cheers - Neil
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