>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:00:52 +0200, madunix <madu...@gmail.com> said:
> I was reading the following on the net regarding dedupe, can I have > your opinion about the dedupe? You may note that you get a somewhat sparse, even frosty, response from this list. I'll let you know why I, in particular, don't choose to respond to most of your queries. You ask questions in a sufficiently vague manner that the appropriate answer is a long explanatory discourse. But you don't appear to welcome pointers to the authoritative discourse: the docs. This is fairly normal "newbie" behavior; nothing odd. But your web presence indicates you feel yourself to be enough of a TSM pro to put it on your CV. From someone of that competence level, the right questions are phrased something like: Hi, I'm doing X, with Y sorts of machines, and I encountered Z. Is this what you expect, how are you-all doing this, etc.. The interesting social-group distinction is that, in one communication you are: + offering some advice and feedback to those more newbie than you. This is important: you're giving before you're asking. + going out on a limb a bit, to show you have faith in your past opinions, while offering them for correction + displaying enough context that those contemplating a reply know how to phrase their answer. The terse, broad requests feel more like 'will you do my homework for me?', but I'm a known curmudgeon. So, whatever. - Allen S. Rout - Get off my lawn!
