{"id":885,"date":"2007-08-30T10:17:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T00:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/how-not-to-get-a-sensible-response-on-a-mailing-listweb-forum\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T00:17:33","slug":"how-not-to-get-a-sensible-response-on-a-mailing-listweb-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/how-not-to-get-a-sensible-response-on-a-mailing-listweb-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to get a sensible response on a mailing list\/web forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a start, you shouldn&#8217;t be using a web forum. Are you too stupid to use email or what?<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself, does your question boil down to &#8220;pls do my job 4 me. kthxbye&#8221; (because it&#8217;s in stupid speak because it&#8217;s an obviously stupid question to be asking). If it does, don&#8217;t post it. Instead, RTFFM (where F is for Fine&#8230;. at least one of them is anyway), look at the archives. You will then find approximately eleventy-billion messages pointing you to exactly the right tool and docs to let you answer your question &#8211; easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a start, you shouldn&#8217;t be using a web forum. Are you too stupid to use email or what? 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