Why We Won’t Help You

Mark wrote a little rant about why people sometimes find it hard to get help on mailing lists.

The short, smart-alec, Zen-like answer is that we are helping you, you just don’t realize it yet. … Validation is an indicator of cluefulness.

In other words, we help people who help themselves. Don’t make us do something that you yourself are not willing to do.

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