What is this a newsgroup or a Uni lecture platform?.Ease up buddy - dont
dictate.
Mark Kliene.
Paul Foxworthy wrote:
> At 12:05 AM 30/03/2001 +0930, David & Sue Harper wrote:
> > It appears to me the only way to get anything out of this lot is to come
> > up with something controversial.
>
> Unfair. The people here who know about Quail Thrushes and Crescent
> Honeyeaters (and I'm not one of them) are not, in general, the ones who
> indulge in controversy. They don't indulge in much at all, at least not on
> this mailing list! They're too darned busy.
>
> There was a classic message posted to one of the Usenet newsgroups with the
> title "Please Do My Homework For Me". Guess what? Most people won't do
> that. I'm not talking specifically about the Quail Thrush and Crescent
> Honeyeater questions, but there are a proportion of questions on
> birding-aus that anyone with modest research skills and a halfway decent
> search engine can answer for themselves.
>
> I think birding-aus subscribers are extraordinarily generous when the
> request is specific. Many people don't have the time to write an essay,
> particularly just because someone else has asked them to.
>
> I delete over half of the posts to birding-aus based on the subject line
> alone. It's a fairly high volume group and I couldn't keep up any other
> way. I suspect I'm not alone and vague subject lines will lose you many
> readers. To get specific, "Disappearing Crescent Honeyeaters" doesn't look
> like a question to me.
>
> To summarise:
>
> 1. Do your homework first
> 2. Ask short, specific questions
> 3. Choose subject lines carefully
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul Foxworthy
>
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