From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Kindness
Date: 1999/09/02
Date: 1999-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37CE93CD.799A225A@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37CC6844.AB898EEE@rational.com
Mark Lundquist wrote:
> I hate to see people get trashed on for asking an innocent question!
>
This is a bit of a non-sequiter. There are often rude posts to this (and
other) newsgroups - sometimes justified, sometimes not. A specific example
may be in order - unless there is some desire not to hold up otherwise
respected members of the community to public rebuke.
Things that smell of students trying to get there homework done for them
generally deserve some sort of "rude" scolding. Questions from the merely
ignorant should be treated with patience, understanding and a bit of
humility. (There was a time *we* were new at it too and asked questions that
seemed obvious to others.) I think it is useful to look at such questions as
an opportunity to help others and give back some of what we've been given -
not as opportunities to show off how smart we are or to massage our own egos
by tearing down others.
MDC
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-31 0:00 Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Geoff Bull
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Eight Queens problem (was Re: Kindness) Daryle Walker
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness tmoran
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <37D55622.69B27515@rational.com>
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Homework (was Re: Kindness) Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Homework Mark Lundquist
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Geoff Bull
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Jerry Petrey
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Nick Roberts
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Kindness James William Zuercher
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
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