ha. Thanks man. You shall be honored and remembered timelessly in song -- Mike McKoy *404.590.7176* http://MyForeverHair.com http://www.MyModelTalk.com http://InCrowdUSA.net http://www.google.com/profiles/mikemckoy
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org > wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 05:27:26PM -0400, Mike McKoy wrote: > > > You are awesome. tell me your birthday so i can send you endearing ecards > > on your birthdays for the rest of your life :) > > You can make up your own "Viktor appreciation day", it need not be > my birthday. :-) > > On "Viktor appreciation day", help some other user to post sufficient > detail so he or she can actually get help. Note, no need to actually > solve the problem, just help people to avoid "theory of mind" issues > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind#False-belief_task> wherein > the poster expects others to know what they know. > > That'll save me the effort of being the chief poster of the > > http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail > > URL. The basic idea is to communicate enough supporting facts so > that others might reach the same (or better) hypotheses that the > user is posting, rather than just the hypotheses without the > supporting facts. > > Most folks seem to want to tell a story in their own words, but > this works poorly for remote diagnosis of technical problems. > Instead they need to be the remote eyes of the person trying to > help them. The only additional input, that does fit the "story", > format is what behaviour they want or expect that differs from what > the reported evidence shows. > > -- > Viktor. >
