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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Only C gurus allowed?!?!
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 06:42:36 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <18k6csINNmom@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1992Sep9.051107.22938@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- In article <1992Sep9.051107.22938@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
- >Is there some kind of implicit censorship here? To the effect that only
- >C gurus are allowed to help others here?
-
- Censorship is when someone prevents you from posting.
-
- >Does it matter whether I was right or wrong? There're plenty of fellas
- >here willing to correct me if I'm wrong .... but please don't be
- >offensive or [suggest] that I keep quiet.
-
- If you post an incorrect answer, and someone else corrects you, how is the
- original poster (who presumably knows less than either of you) supposed to
- know which answer was the correct one? Blatantly incorrect responses are
- just going to confuse him more.
-
- >Is is just this group or what? I don't get this kind of thing in the
- >other groups I suscribe to.
-
- I've seen plenty of it in comp.unix.questions. In general, it happens more
- in the groups with lots of questions from newbies, rather than those used
- for discussions among sophisticated users. You need to be more careful
- when responding in these groups.
-
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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