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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!concert!ais.com!bruce
- From: bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Butthead
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.120521.5916@ais.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 12:05:21 GMT
- References: <01GSUDDQDUHE8WWCGW@kopc.hhs.dk>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC
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- In article <01GSUDDQDUHE8WWCGW@kopc.hhs.dk>, ARNE@KOPC.HHS.DK (Arne Vajhxj) writes:
- >
- > To all the people who likes to flame others for posting poorly described
- > questions which can easily be answered via TFM or HELP:
- >
- > - Noone is born with VMS knowledge, we all have to learn it. We
- > quote (probably bad translation, but... ): It is human to
- > make mistakes but divine to forgive !
-
- The original quote you're probably looking for is `To err is human,
- to forgive divine' -- Alexander Pope. Actually the meaning is
- translated very accurately, but it has the wrong meter -- it comes
- from an essay set to verse.
-
- > [...]
- >
- > So when someone ask a polite question (and most of the posters do
- > ask rather polite and admit openly, that they are a beginner), then
- > give them a polite answer (and maybe some hints about how they can
- > solve their next problem themselves!).
- >
- > [...]
- >
- > Besides lowering the blood-preasure for certain individuals then YOU
- > WILL GET MORE AND BETTER ANSWERS if your posting includes:
- >
- > - a detailed description of the problem
- > - software names and versions
- > - exact error-messages and/or log-files
- > - a valid email-address
-
- These are good points, and I hope that everyone takes them to heart.
-
- > At last a few general comments:
- >
- > - Do not pick at peoples language. A lot of people do not have english
- > as their language of birth. My english may not be perfect, but it is
- > probably better than your danish :-)
-
- Your English is pretty good; your written English is better than that
- of many native speakers I've encountered. And the less said about my
- Danish, the better ;-). But I agree: language flames are pointless;
- and if someone is sufficiently inarticulate that the problem is unclear,
- then it costs nothing to be polite when asking for clarification.
-
- Bruce C. Wright
-