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From: daj@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
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Subject: Re: Timo Salmi's obnoxious postings
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Date: 16 Apr 91 09:15:25 GMT
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In article <1991Apr15.074642.3009@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

# I take the liberty of inferring that you especially object to my
# method of answering questions with pointers to where the answers are
# rather than giving the direct answers.  There are reasons for this
# method.  It is more generic.  It means that the same answers
# probably do not have to be repeated so often.  Whether this method
# takes more or less text than giving the actual, full answer is not
# the real issue.  This is only my opinion, and many users may
# disagree, but I think that it is more productive in the long run to
# help people to know how to easily find answers to their questions
# rather than simply feed all the answers. 
 
Also, for every person who gets one of these generic reminders after 
having posted a question, there are undoubtedly ten more who see your 
posting *before* having asked their first question.
 
Thus, by posting the pointer, you may well be preventing ten more 
unnecessary individual questions.