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From: mguyott@mirror.UUCP (Marc Guyott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to ask for info
Message-ID: <21005@mirror.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 88 14:48:06 GMT
References: <454@ur-cc.UUCP> <1545@micomvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mguyott@prism.TMC.COM (Marc Guyott)
Organization: Mirror Systems, Cambridge Mass.
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In article <1545@micomvax.UUCP> ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:
>
>There is one interesting fact about this particular newsgroup however.  The
>question to answer ratio would appear to be very high compared with other
>groups (with a few notable exceptions every now and again).
>
>*Many* questions go by unanswered publicly, and if my own experience is
>anything to go by, privately too.
>

I have always received prompt and useful answers to any questions that I
have posted to this group.  The great majority of these answers have been
via e-mail to me as opposed to posted to the group.  The concept of
summarizing the replies and posting one response to any question is, in 
my opinion, a good one when adhered to.  In the past I have seen several
questions in which the poster promised to follow up with a summary of the
results and then I never saw said summary.  I do not know if this was because
there were no responses or if it was because the original poster never found
the time to follow up to his/her question.  I've always felt that if people
take the time to respond to you, then the least you can do is take the time
to post a summary of these responses.  Net-etiquette, you can't live with it
and you can't live without it 8-).

                                             Marc
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              "All my life I always wanted to BE somebody.
               I see now I should have been more specific."
                             Jane Wagner
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