While I do understand the impulse to grump at people who seem to be asking lazy
questions on XSL-List I'd like to suggest that we take a calm approach to them.
Some of the flailing beginners we help out become experts helping others in an
astonishingly short time.
I do have a form letter that I send to people who seem to be asking questions
without doing any homework (or without telling us about it when they ask). I
send it off-list, mostly to avoid embarrassing the person, and partially so
that you aren't all pestered with the note every time I send it.
I suggest that when someone asks a "please do my thinking for me" or "I haven't
a clue" type question that list members:
- provide a short helpful answer and point the requester to a good
book or class; or
- send an off-list message to me asking me to send the "dumb question"
message; or
- simply refrain from responding.
I'll send my "How to get good answers from XSL-List message to them.
Thanks.
-- Tommie
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