[outages] META: How To Ask Questions On Mailing Lists

[Jay Ashworth]

I'd like to remind everyone of -- and encourage you to read, if you haven't 
lately -- my two favorite essays on how to get help from the Internet:

The first is "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" by Eric Raymond and Rick
Moen:

  http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

and the second is PuTTY author Simon Tatham's "How To Report Bugs Effectively":

  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

The short version is: people on the Internet help you for free.  Remember that,
and do your homework first, so that they don't make fun of you for sport 
instead.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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