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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Only C gurus allowed?!?!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.204130.24545@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Sep9.051107.22938@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:41:30 GMT
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- In <1992Sep9.051107.22938@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
-
- >I posted something in this group to try to help someone out.
-
- >I got flaming mail to the effect that I was wrong, that my explanation
- >was garbage etc etc and that I shouldn't post in this group (to help
- >others) unless I'm very sure of the facts.
-
- >Is there some kind of implicit censorship here? To the effect that only
- >C gurus are allowed to help others here?
-
- No censorship that I know of, but if you were wrong, were you really
- "helping others"?
-
- >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.
-
- Yes, it matters quite a bit whether you're right or wrong, if you're
- claiming to be giving an answer to someone. When you ask a question,
- does it matter to you whether the answer is right or wrong?
- Presumably so, or you would have just made one up instead of asking.
- So why would you even question whether it matters whether an answer
- you give someone is right or not? If you don't KNOW the answer, why
- answer?
-
- >Is is just this group or what? I don't get this kind of thing in the
- >other groups I suscribe to.
-
- I would suspect that it happens most in the high-traffic groups.
- There is more than enough traffic and more than enough confusion
- without having a dozen wrong answers given for every question, and
- then having a long series of notes trying to straighten it all out.
- Yes, you may feel that you were only one wrong answer, but if you give
- a wrong answer, why shouldn't everyone else who doesn't know also post
- an 'answer'. How is the poor guy asking the question supposed to
- figure out what's right, without there being a whole flurry of
- corrections from people who DO know the answer?
-
- If you don't know the answer, it's best to sit back and let someone
- else handle the question.
-
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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