Re: strncpy not that easy to use
- From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:32:50 GMT
"smnoff" <343rhinosourueus@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
"Richard Heathfield" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:J7udna8GJZA4DWvZnZ2dnUVZ8tydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx
[Top-posting again]
smnoff said:
It took you forever to give the link when it should have been done weeks
ago.
No, it should never be necessary to give such a link, and it should never
be
necessary to explain to people how to use this group, because they're
supposed to spend a few weeks reading it, so that they can learn by
example.
and if I didn't see it, you should have kept redrawing attention to
it to begin with, period.
No, it's not his job to teach you good manners and common sense. That's
your
responsibility, not his.
So it's your fault, period.
No, it's yours.
And now you have two choices - continue to be antagonistic towards the
very
people from whom you are seeking expert help, or wise up fast.
I see very few new people following your etiquette. You will continue to
have the same problems over and over and over again.
Thank you for your concern. We'll continue to deal with it, just as
we have been all along. If you have any contructive advice, I'm sure
we'd love to hear it.
I've found that top-posting is discouraged in most of the newsgroups I
read, particularly the technical ones. Conventions may differ in
forums other than Usenet newsgroups, but that's not what we're talking
about here.
The facts
remain, users don't know what top posting is and you just telling
them not top post doesn't work. Instead of berating new users of not
knowing your extremely unsually etiquette, you can easily copy and
paste a link. Notice that no matter how many existing and regular
users agree with you, they will be wrong just as well cause, new
users will do the same as I. Don't believe me? How about doing a
Google search on this group for the word "top post" and see for your
self.
That's exactly why I regularly copy and paste a link to
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>. I have done so in response
to *your* posts at least twice, on August 8 and again on August 30.
It's hardly anyone else's fault if you don't pay attention.
If people have complained to you about top-posting without posting the
link, it's probaby because I had already posted it in the same thread.
Face up to the fact that new users are always never going to know
what top posting is and will never read the FAQ cause they are not
sure if the one they search for belongs to this newsgroup, nor know
which FAQ to read as there are so many of them. The smart newsgroup
constantly have bots that publish this info. And forums have them
PINNED to the top.
The FAQ is auto-posted here, I think twice a month. References to it
are posted all the time. For anyone who manages to miss that, a
Google search for "comp.lang.c faq" turns up <http://c-faq.com/> as
the first hit. And it's traditional to browse a newsgroup for a while
before posting; in the old days you had to do this by lurking, but now
you can just use Google Groups to scan the archives.
What problem are you complaining about, and what solution are you
offering?
Doctors help their patients, but they also spend a lot of time
listening to them.
Ok, I'm listening. Do you have anything constructive to say?
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@xxxxxxx <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
.
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