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[ianhess.livejournal.com]

This got found and circulated at work. It might come in handy as a (blundgeoning) tool for some of you with coworkers.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

not sure I'd use anything ESR wrote as a reference.

[fixerkitty.livejournal.com]

Thank you Jesus.

I'm posting that on one of my forums. It's a costuming forum, not a hacking forum, but costuming has just as many technicalities and things that can go wrong as techsupport does. So the information still applies, esp. on "Not Acting Like a Loser."

Thanks for finding/sharing!

[jecook]

Just out of curiosity: Why?

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

Just the mere fact someone might have read that gives them a leg up with me. I mean, it's more than three sentences long inclusive of an intro and summary, so most of my people would never get through it.

[applegoddess.livejournal.com]

I'm not an ESR fan, but that link is still great.

It's an essential part of my "dealing with IRC n00bs" toolkit.

[alchemon.livejournal.com]

Eric wasn't the only person who wrote that. Rick Moen had a very big amount of input. In fact, I know Rick has commented time and time again that he shouldn't have settled for second place in the titling on that document. A lot of people see Eric's name, skip Rick's and assume that Eric wrote the whole thing!

For reference: http://lists.luv.asn.au/wws/arc/luv-talk/2007-04/msg00020.html

there is also

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555375