What are ground rules for posting questions to class email alias?
• When you are posting a question, please make sure you’ve done your share of work. Make sure you read the relevant documentation, presentation slides, FAQ, and other postings before you post your question. • Also please capture as much relevant information as possible such as following • Even though the folks who usually answer questions (including myself and Sean) are trying to address them as speedy and as best as they can, please understand that these folks are using their spare time and resource to do these as voluntary activities. Please also note that answering questions like “I did this and somehow it doesn’t work” kind of questions are never easy to answer. Consequently not all questions can be nor would be answered in timely manner. • Please ask questions that are relevant to the topics of the week if possible so that we can have more focused discussions. • If you find any answers to the questions, please feel free to post to the alias so that other people can benefit.
• When you are posting a question, please make sure you’ve done your share of work. Make sure you read the relevant documentation, presentation slides, FAQ, and other postings before you post your question. • Also please capture as much relevant information as possible such as following • trace of the exception • screen output message of the failure • environment variable settings • OS platform you use • Even though the folks who usually answer questions (including myself and Sean) are trying to address them as speedy and as best as they can, please understand that these folks are using their spare time and resource to do these as voluntary activities. Please also note that answering questions like “I did this and somehow it doesn’t work” kind of questions are never easy to answer. Consequently not all questions can be nor would be answered in timely manner. • Please ask questions that are relevant to the topics of the week if possible so that we can have more focused discussions. • If
