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标 题: how to ask questions smartly (9)
发信站: 听涛站 (2002年07月19日17:42:56 星期五), 站内信件
Use meaningful, specific subject headers
On mailing lists or newsgroups, the subject header is your golden opportunit
y to attract qualified experts' attention in around 50 characters or fewer.
Don't waste it on babble like "Please help me" (let alone "PLEASE HELP ME!!!
!"; messages with subjects like that get discarded by reflex). Don't try to
impress us with the depth of your anguish; use the space for a super-concise
problem description instead.
A good convention for subject headers, used by many tech support organizatio
ns, is "object - deviation". The "object" part specifies what thing or group
of things is having a problem, and the "deviation" part describes the devia
tion from expected behavior.
Stupid:
HELP! Video doesn't work properly on my laptop!
Smart:
XFree86 4.1 misshapen mouse cursor, Fooware MV1005 vid. chipset
Smarter:
XFree86 4.1 mouse cursor on Fooware MV1005 vid. chipset - is misshapen
The process of writing an "object-deviation" description will help you organ
ize your thinking about the problem in more detail. What is affected? Just t
he mouse cursor or other graphics too? Is this specific to XFree86? To versi
on 4.1? Is this specific to Fooware video chipsets? To model MV1005? A hacke
r who sees the result can immediately understand what it is that you are hav
ing a problem with and the problem you are having, at a glance.
If you ask a question in a reply, be sure to change the subject line to indi
cate that you are asking a question. A Subject line that looks like "Re: tes
t" or "Re: new bug" is less likely to attract useful amounts of attention. A
lso, pare quotes of previous messages to the minimum consistent with cluing
in new readers.
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