From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 29 20:17:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08428 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:45:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07854 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:43:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08438; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:20:21 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980329212018.62300@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:20:18 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: One step forward.... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Duncan Barclay on Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 08:27:33PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 08:27:33PM -0000, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > Another thing we need help on is the technique of framing questions well. > > The difference between a well worded question and one that's almost > > impossible to answer is very obvious to those who do the answering. If it > > were so obvious to us we wouldn't be writing bad ones, would we! :-) > > That's the sort of thing that can only be learned through studying lots of > > examples and doing lots of practice. How we'd do that here or in a document > > I'm not real sure yet, but I'm working on it :-) > > > > One thing I've just thought of is how to deal with non-native english speakers. > Some of these people post some very convoluted questions which is purely > down to poor language skills on both sides. How about asking for > volunteers/whatever to be available for translation/replying in a native > language? That's an interesting idea, though native English speakers don't always express themselves well either :-) I'd like to hear what speakers of other languages think of the idea, and how they would like it to be used. -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message