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[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

I believe we should add ESR's "how to ask questions the smart way" at:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

to the list footer. It could point people in the right direction.

One thing I've noticed is that the best way to get help when you can't 
properly diagnose the situation is to ask help on how to diagnose it 
(perhaps with an OT: prefix). If you *do* know how to diagnose it 
properly,  then posting a complete detail of what you diagnosed, steps 
taken, results expected, etc. will give you a much higher probability of 
getting help than if you don't.

For example, I see a lot of "use vmstat and iogleekzorp, then get the 
output of the tornpee command and pipe it through blekzap so you can 
tell how many hyperspanning buffers are stuck in a temporal loop because 
of the tachyon-chroniton exposure due to triolic radiation in the 
dylithium chamber". Or something like that.

I have absolutely *no* idea how to go *that* deep into the system in 
order to diagnose. I just use a bit of logic and some poking around, in 
a completely unscientific (for example, "the red hard disk light seems 
to blink a lot less now") way, and it usually works.

I *do* know better than to act outright hostile (or to even give the 
opportunity for my message to be interpreted as hostile) if I don't like 
an answer. See:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0515/p13s01-stct.html
http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.intonation.html

In any case, *THE FOLLOWING IS A JOKE*:
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