Re: Just upgraded to XP

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Mike Brannigan [MSFT] (mikebran_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:52:37 +0100

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> I don't agree at all. If everyone would do as you suggest, there
> would be no need for a newsgroup such as this one. None of us
> here knows anything that can't be found elsewhere.
>
> You could say the same thing about schools. Why go to college and
> have a Professor teach you something? Just do the research
> yourself; the same information is all available in books, on the
> internet, etc.
>

Ken,

If all the answers to all the questions were available then yes we would
not need newsgroups like this.
This would be the ideal situation if all persons answered all the questions
they had from existing information sources.
However this is not the case. What is true is that the majority of
questions you find in these groups could have been answered if the original
poster had looked in one of the common sources of help. Such as Help and
Support etc.
If these persons helped themselves to the answers to simple questions it
would leave more bandwidth for those with more complex less obvious
questions.

The real issue here is that people just will not do anything in many cases
to help themselves and would rather post a question and wait for an answer. 

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Mike
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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message 
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> In news:%23EBUL$VQEHA.3748@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
> Mike Brannigan [MSFT] <mikebran@online.microsoft.com> typed:
>
>> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---@webtree.ca> wrote in message
>> news:%23a8LhFUQEHA.556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> I've always wondered why people are advised to search for
> answers
>>> before posting to technical support newsgroups like this one.
> I
>>> thought the purpose of these groups was to answer questions.
> Isn't a
>>> person, posting a question here, doing a search for answers to
> their
>>> questions.
>>>
>>
>> No.  A significant number of questions are asked and answered
> over
>> and over again.
>> Posters should be encouraged to use all self help techniques
> prior to
>> posting a question.
>> This includes the simple task of searching the relevant
> newsgroup
>> prior to posting a question to which the answer has already
> been
>> given.
>> This would ideally help cut down on the number of duplicate
> posts and
>> thus allow those with a unique problem that has not be answered
>> elsewhere getting more help from more people.
>
>
> I don't agree at all. If everyone would do as you suggest, there
> would be no need for a newsgroup such as this one. None of us
> here knows anything that can't be found elsewhere.
>
> You could say the same thing about schools. Why go to college and
> have a Professor teach you something? Just do the research
> yourself; the same information is all available in books, on the
> internet, etc.
>
> I think Harry is exactly right.
>
> -- 
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
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