Re: Time to ditch "SSCCE"?

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:08:31 -0400, Dave Glasser <dglasser@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote or quoted :

>In my view, they should be thinking "gee, what can I do to
>make it as easy as possible for these busy people to help me?" This
>was intuitive to me way back in the day when I would post to Fidonet
>for help, say, getting a soundcard to work under DOS 4.0 on my 386. I
>would automatically include the contents of my autoexec.bat and
>config.sys files, and my environment variables, and jumper settings or
>anything else I could think of, because even though I had no clue what
>the problem was, I knew those things were relevant.

Hmm. I this were a sitcom, the obvious answer is to create some phony
identities and post some questions with the textbook perfect context.
The user gets a crisp clear answer and a pat on the back. Newbies
learn this is what works.

Your point is well taken if you bend over backwards to help demanding,
lazy, rude or ungrateful people, you must take responsibility for the
end result.

It is a variant on the old Buddhist story of the scorpion and the
frog. http://allaboutfrogs.org/stories/scorpion.html

I just wish I had the money to go back to university. I drives me
crazy seeing these kids with that opportunity of a lifetime tossing it
away.
--
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http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts.
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