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[Meyer, Tony]

>> I'm assuming that you subscribed to get answers, since
>> I haven't seen any posts from you helping others"
>
> Most of the emails I've seen (of the ones I've looked at)
> have been answers that could be answered by either the
> spambayes FAQs or a simple google search and a bit of reading
> thus I haven't been too active. I'm all about helping people
> interested in helping themselves as opposed to helping people
> who aren't motivated to get the answer themselves.

Pointing people towards where they can find help (e.g. a specific FAQ
question/answer) is really one of the most useful things to do.  It's a
great way to relieve other people (who can work on complicated questions
or actually fix bugs or add features).

It's often not the case that people aren't motivated to get the answer
themselves, but they don't know enough to do so.  Not everyone is good
enough with Google to get an answer to a specific SpamBayes question.
Not everyone is able to figure out what in the FAQ they ought to be
looking at.

> Not to mention the one question I posted regarding spambayes
> and terminal services went unanswered so I guess your assumption
> is wrong.

It doesn't seem so to me, but whatever.

> What did I do when someone didn't answer my question?  I went
> out and figured it out myself.

When people do that, what really helps is if you reply to your own
question, with the answer that you found.  That way, next time someone
asks that question, it's easier to find the answer (or for those that
regularly read messages here, they may remember that someone had
figuring out the answer recently, and so know immediately what the
answer is).

=Tony.Meyer

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