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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Path: uu4news.netcom.com!zodiac!szh
- From: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
- Subject: Re: a dump question from a novice C programmer
- Message-ID: <1996Jan30.034748.6574@zcon.com>
- Sender: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: zodiac
- Reply-To: szh@zcon.com
- Organization: Z Consulting Group
- References: <4ejj46$1hh@tnn-wan.trw.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:47:48 GMT
-
- In article <4ejj46$1hh@tnn-wan.trw.com>, mike.west@trw.com (Michael West) writes:
- >In article <jyli-2801960040100001@li.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
- > jyli@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jason Li) wrote:
- >>
- >...snip...
- >
- >Jason's question has been answered but I want to put in 2 cents worth on another
- >matter.
- >
- >This post like many other's contains "a dumb question from a novice C
- >programmer" in the subject. I've seen many of these. To me it indicates that
- >there's something itimidating about new C programmers posting here. I feel
- >that's unfortunate & wanted to say so.
- >
- >Granted newbies should check the FAQ first but I hope everyone on comp.lang.c
- >can make new C programmers feel welcome & that their questions, however simple
- >are not dumb.
-
- Simple questions are not dumb. It is the lack of looking in the FAQ
- before posting that I feel needs to be curbed appropriately. This
- newsgroup gets over a few three hundred messages in a given day, and
- making sure that we eliminate the common ones - that get asked *all*
- the time - is a reasonable request.
-
- Z
-
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