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发信人: byebye (不是个东西), 信区: foreign_lg
标 题: how to ask questions smartly ^O^ (13)
发信站: 听涛站 (2002年07月19日17:52:43 星期五), 站内信件
Describe your problem's symptoms in chronological order
The most useful clues in figuring out something that went wrong often lie in
the events immediately prior. So, your account should describe precisely wh
at you did, and what the machine did, leading up to the blowup. In the case
of command-line processes, having a session log (e.g., using the script util
ity) and quoting the relevant twenty or so lines is very useful.
If the program that blew up on you has diagnostic options (such as -v for ve
rbose), try to think carefully about selecting options that will add useful
debugging information to the transcript.
If your account ends up being long (more than about four paragraphs), it mig
ht be useful to succinctly state the problem up top, then follow with the ch
ronological tale. That way, hackers will know what to watch for in reading y
our account.
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Don't ask people to reply by private email
Hackers believe solving problems should be a public, transparent process dur
ing which a first try at an answer can and should be corrected if someone mo
re knowledgeable notices that it is incomplete or incorrect. Also, they get
some of their reward for being respondents from being seen to be competent a
nd knowledgeable by their peers.
When you ask for a private reply, you are disrupting both the process and th
e reward. Don't do this. It's the respondent's choice whether to reply priva
tely — and if he does, it's usually because he thinks the question is too i
ll-formed or obvious to be interesting to others.
There is one limited exception to this rule. If you think the question is su
ch that you are likely to get a lot of answers that are all pretty similar,
then the magic words are "email me and I'll summarize the answers for the gr
oup". It is courteous to try and save the mailing list or newsgroup a flood
of substantially identical postings — but you have to keep the promise to s
ummarize.
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