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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Schizophrenic Solipsist)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Modest proposal (was: Re: Why doesn't this qsort example work? :-)
Message-ID: <14050@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 13:38:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 13:38:05 1987
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In article <414@srs.UUCP> dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel) writes:

) It seems to me that any easy question to the net yields far too many
) responses; people all try to answer the question at the same time.
) 
) Why don't we start a collision-avoidance convention?
) If you see an easy question, and you want to answer it, roll a
) twenty-sided die; if it comes up 1, answer the question; otherwise
) wait to see if somebody else does first.

Aside from the fact that only a certain <characterization deleted>
type of person has such dice around, there's a better solution.

	Send your answer by mail to the person who asked!

If the question really *is* elementary, the rest of the world doesn't
care to see your answer.  If the question is *not* trivial, anyone
who also wants to know the answer can say so by mail.  If the
questioner gets many "me too"s they can post one or two of the
answers.
				Matt Crawford