[Fwd: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way]

[Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca>]

This turned up on another list. 
Eric Raymond on how to ask questions of hackers.

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Methinks this might be useful for some of us, trying to extract information
from our developers.

Eric is one of the main people behind the Open Source Initiative:
http://www.opensource.org/

and has produced a number of well-known documemts like

the "Hackers' Dictionary" or "jargon file":
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/

and a whole lot of essays:
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/

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