Help first, be a stuck-up *** later (Was RE: [thelist] [Music clips] Continuous music clip playing across site)

[Jay Blanchard]

Tips are owed....

<tip subject="list etiquette">
Usually when a question enters a mailing list in a very broad form it
indicates that the interogator may not know enough about the subject to ask
more pointed questions. How do you help out this person? By asking questions
of course! What platform, what software, anything that you think may have
relevance to the question asked originally.

On many lists [that generally have more specificity, like a PHP, MySQL, ASP,
SQL than does thelist] there is such a high volume of traffic that broad
based questions go un-answered or flamed, but for mosts lists the
subscribership and traffic is low enough as to allow a dialogue to start by
asking questions back and forth.

humor [watch wrap]--
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%2253+to+flame+the+spell+checkers%22&hl=e
n&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=4&as_miny=1997
&as_maxd=15&as_maxm=4&as_maxy=1997&selm=33543FAC.5A63%40oz.net&rnum=1

http://livinginternet.com/?l/lu_etiq_thread.htm
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