How to be helpful

[Phil Tann]

On Thursday 12 June 2008 13:07:01 Karl Auer wrote:
>
> 7: Don't be sarcastic, don't be rude, don't make jokes. Not everyone
> will be able to distinguish sarcastic advice or joke advice from real
> advice, and rudeness just obscures your message. Telling a newbie to "rm
> -fr /" is not original, not helpful and NOT FUNNY. And it's not just
> newbies; many people do not speak or read English very well.
>
And everyone has to learn at some stage.  One thing that turned me off saying 
ANYTHING in these lists for some time is the first time I said anything I got 
shot down in flames for what someone thought was a stupid question.  I'm 
quite fond of this list as there are very few people opinionated enough to do 
this to someone.

>
> Regards, K.

Have a great day all.

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