[gmx-users] use of the mailing list

Junior Nebeker junior.nebeker at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 23:09:32 CEST 2011


Of course I know of Mark's contributions.  However, one's contributions, big
or small, shouldn't excuse him/her from being rude to others.  That's my
constructive feedback - take it or leave it.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Amit Choubey <kgp.amit at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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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