Sure Mark. If your interest is in patrolling the Gromacs mailing list, then I'll leave you to it.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Mark Abraham <mark.abra...@anu.edu.au>wrote: > On 19/08/2011 1:41 PM, Junior Nebeker wrote: > > Correct. Other people (who are new to this list) need your help, and > unless their requests are way out of line, there's no reason to adopt a > haughty attitude in responding. > > > There's never a case for rudeness, but when (for example) people have been > asking questions on the mailing list for years and still haven't absorbed > the advice available here http://www.gromacs.org/Support, then one can get > frustrated. Expressing a little of that can help people realise how to > participate more effectively in the discussion. One's family doctor can ask > a lot of patient questions about what is wrong because you're paying them a > lot of money. If people who might give free help don't feel that their time > is valued, they might stop giving it. One way of demonstrating this is to > ask questions that show one's willingness to work on the problem by > providing lots of relevant diagnostic information. See > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > Mark > > P.S. I'm not intending to express particular criticism of the original > poster in this thread > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Mark Abraham <mark.abra...@anu.edu.au>wrote: > >> On 19/08/2011 9:32 AM, Junior Nebeker wrote: >> >>> >>> Hey mark, >>> >>> If you are really sick of asking people for such information, why do you >>> even care to respond to this mailing list? >>> >> >> Because I'd rather teach someone to fish than either give them fish or >> watch them starve. >> >> >> Mark >> -- >> gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org >> http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users >> Please search the archive at >> http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! >> Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www >> interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. >> Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists >> > > > > > > -- > gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org > http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > Please search the archive at > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! > Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists >
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