[gmx-users] use of the mailing list

[Amit Choubey]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Junior Nebeker <junior.nebeker at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sure Mark.  If your interest is in patrolling the Gromacs mailing list,
> then I'll leave you to it.
>

I think before you type your response you should consider that Mark has
helped several hundred times over this mailing list.


> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>wrote:
>
>>  On 19/08/2011 1:41 PM, Junior Nebeker wrote:
>>
>> Correct.  Other people (who are new to this list) need your help, and
>> unless their requests are way out of line, there's no reason to adopt a
>> haughty attitude in responding.
>>
>>
>> There's never a case for rudeness, but when (for example) people have been
>> asking questions on the mailing list for years and still haven't absorbed
>> the advice available here http://www.gromacs.org/Support, then one can
>> get frustrated. Expressing a little of that can help people realise how to
>> participate more effectively in the discussion. One's family doctor can ask
>> a lot of patient questions about what is wrong because you're paying them a
>> lot of money. If people who might give free help don't feel that their time
>> is valued, they might stop giving it. One way of demonstrating this is to
>> ask questions that show one's willingness to work on the problem by
>> providing lots of relevant diagnostic information. See
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> P.S. I'm not intending to express particular criticism of the original
>> poster in this thread
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>wrote:
>>
>>> On 19/08/2011 9:32 AM, Junior Nebeker wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hey mark,
>>>>
>>>> If you are really sick of asking people for such information, why do you
>>>> even care to respond to this mailing list?
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Because I'd rather teach someone to fish than either give them fish or
>>> watch them starve.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark
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